Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
E.g. Gtk-2.x uses UTF-8 almost exclusively, although you can force the use of the locale's encoding for filenames (if you have filenames in multiple encodings, you lose; filenames using the "wrong" encoding simply don't appear in file selectors).
Actually they do appear, even though you can't type their names from the keyboard. The name shown in the GUI used to be escaped in different ways by different programs or even different places in one program (question marks, %hex escapes \oct escapes), but recently they added some functions to glib to make the behavior uniform.
In the last version of Gtk-2.x which I tried, "invalid" filenames are
just omitted from the list. Gtk-1.x displayed them (I think with
question marks, but it may have been a box).
I've just tried with a more recent version (2.6.2); the default
behaviour is similar, although you can now get around the issue by
using G_FILENAME_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1. Of course, if your locale is
a long way from ISO-8859-1, that isn't a particularly good solution.
The best test case would be a system used predominantly by Japanese,
where (apparently) it's common to have a mixture of both EUC-JP and
Shift-JIS filenames (occasionally wrapped in ISO-2022, but usually
raw).
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Glynn Clements