Re: Pango warning: "Invalid UTF-8 string"

[Roger Leigh <rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org>]

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Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com> writes:

> Roger Leigh wrote:
>>> It's a filename, an std::string returned by
>>> Gnome::Vfs::FileInfo::get_name().
>> You want the glibmm equivalent of g_filename_to_utf8.
>
> Sweet, that did the job. Thanks. It's called 
> Glib::locale_to_utf8().

There's also a Glib::filename_to_utf8().  I'm not sure what the
differences are, though.  Perhaps you can have different locale and
disc encodings?

>> You might also want to consider using a UTF-8 locale (de_DE.UTF-8) and
>> UTF-8 filenames on disc.
>
> I also considered that, but wasn't sure if I 
> really need it. What exactly would be the 
> advantage of using UTF-8 over an extended ASCII 
> charset?

Well, you can use all those other neat characters, like symbols,
proper „quotes”.

> I have the feeling that other programs may have 
> trouble with widebyte charsets (for example, if I 
> send UTF-8 encoded in X-Chat, people using MS 
> Windows can't read my umlauts either).

It works fine for me.  That's probably an issue with the Windows IRC
client.


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