Re: Save files with correct character set

[Spazzatura.Live <kharhonte hotmail com>]

> ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) is not ASCII. It uses the 8th bit for non-ASCII 
> characters. Latin-1 and UTF-8 are ASCII compatible if you stick to the 
> ASCII character set.
I read it after sending the email on Wikipedia...

> If you are saving data to file, it is much better to save it in 
> unicode format as UTF-8, and if you need to convert it, convert it 
> when reading. However, if you really think you need to convert to 
> Latin-1, use Glib::convert(). But what drew you to Latin-1? If that is 
> your locale encoding, it won't necessarily be other people's locale 
> encoding, and for that reason saving data to file in the locale 
> encoding is generally a bad idea, as it is non-portable. However, if 
> that is not an issue, you could use Glib::locale_from_utf8(). Chris 

I can't, I read it with a Thunderbird extension (not written by me) and 
I don't know Java very well and should change it on every update... (I 
told the developer about that, but he didn't seem to understand at all...)
When I import this files after opening with Gedit and saving it with 
character set ISO-8859-15 it works...
However, my strings, may contain the Euro's symbol (€) so the 
ISO-8859-15 should be the right one for saving it correctly, right? (I'm 
not very experienced about character encoding (as you saw), probably the 
characters are kind of written just in ISO-8859 and -1/-15 depends on 
the reader's interpreter)

However, now i just try Glib::locale_from_utf8() and let you know.

Thanks.
Stefano