Re: [Tracker] [Patch] Correct locales support

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in my tests I saw some issues with locales support in clients. For
> instance if I search something I can see something like
>
> /home/laurent/Musique/T?t?
>
> instead of
>
> /home/laurent/Musique/TÃtÃ
>
>
> It seems that g_print() tries to be smart about locales handling but
> needs a sort of initialization before.
> To test I called g_get_charset() that replied ANSI_X3.4-1968 (it is
> ASCII) instead of UTF-8...


okay this is a bug. All strings need to be utf-8.

Can you let me know where this bug occurs and does it affect all the 
tracker tools including nautilus?

The right fix would be to make sure all strings are encoded as utf-8. If 
locale specific strings are used it could crash tracker!


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