Re: [gtkmm] One thing we didn't really discuss: ustring vs string

[Michael Babcock <mbabcock la creatureshop henson com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
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> 1. We currently use Glib::ustring whenever we are not _certain_ that the
> string could never be UTF8. Filenames can probably never be UTF8 so they
> should be std::string. Others might have more expertise.

Why can filenames never be UTF8? I thought one of the reasons for 
creating UTF8 was to be able to use Unicode in Unix filenames, avoiding 
the null-terminated string problems of using a 16-bit wide character 
Unicode encoding.


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