Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [GNOME VFS] Re: location bar autocompletion

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Darin Adler wrote:

> On 2/25/02 3:43 PM, "Alex Larsson" <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> 
> > But what about input? What URI do we generate if the user types some UTF8
> > text with non-ascii characters in the location bar?
> > 
> > The only thing that seems possible is to escape the UTF8 and try that. But
> > that makes it impossible to type in the name of a file that is not UTF8
> > encoded.
> 
> Not exactly. First, note that we can tell if they are typing a full path.
> Things that start with "/" are full paths. So in that case, we can use
> G_BROKEN_FILENAMES to decide whether to treat it was UTF-8 or whether to
> locale-encode it first.
> 
> I think that will probably give us something acceptable. To type a strange
> name, you just have to type the whole URI, entity encoded.

This seems like a good solution. We could also show file: uris that are 
valid UTF8 in the "non-encoded" UTF8 form in the location bar (unless 
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is used).

This is gonna require some real attention to details.

/ Alex