On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:32:07PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Should g_utf8_next_char() handle other charsets graciously? If not, then > how can I use my system with another charset than UTF-8? Generally all character handling "inside" a program using GLib 2 (and the GNOME 2 platform) should be in UTF-8. The program itself is responsible for converting data on (e.g. file) input/output. Mirek