Re: [Tracker] [Patch] Correct locales support

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 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!

So we should be using g_locale_to_utf8() on anything locale specific 
such as indexing filenames or their metadata and their text contents.



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