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

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> No, it's called Glib::filename_to_utf8():
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/group__CharsetConv.html#ga7
>
> though it might sometimes be the same thing.

I also tried this function but it didn't work. The error was still 
there. Not so with locale_to_utf8().

What is filename_to_utf8() supposed to do? What is special about a 
filename what other strings don't have (considering that characters like 
slashes can as well be part of a normal character sequence) and why 
would it fail where locale_to_utf8() works?

The filenames I'm displaying don't contain any slashes by the way. It's 
just the leafs of the paths I'm displaying (e.g. instead of 
"/usr/local/share" I'm displaying "share").

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Matthias Kaeppler