Re: Glib::ConvertError (or: I obviously still don't understand Glib::ustring)

[Matthias Kaeppler <matthias finitestate org>]

Chris Vine wrote:
> I do not use gnomemm, but either Gnome::Vfs::FileInfo::get_name() doesn't 
> return the filename in the filename codeset for your locale (which is 
> unlikely), or you did not name the file tästfile in your locale's filename 
> codeset (more likely).  Probably you gave its name in UTF-8 and your filename 
> codeset is ISO8859-15, or vice versa.  Remember that as far as Unix is 
> concerned the file name is just a sequence of bytes.  It is for you to get 
> the sequence right.

I issued 'touch tästfile' from the shell. I have no idea which codeset 
has been used for that. My locale is set to 'en_US' (that probably means 
ISO-8859-1).

aterm, gnome-terminal and nautilus properly display this file, so I 
think it's really a problem with my code, not the way I created this file.

> Why not just call it taestfile?

Because my program can not make the assumption that everyone who will be 
using it converts all umlauts in his/her files on his/her computer to 
'ae' 'oe' and so on.

I named the file this way intentionally (it's a "testfile"), to check if 
my program can handle filenames which have special characters in it. 
Obviously it doesn't :)