On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:25, Egon Andersen wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: > > Egon Andersen <post@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >>I've had some problems with g_filename_to/from_utf8(). > > > > The encoding of the returned string depends on the encoding of > > your locale but only if you have the environment variable > > G_BROKEN_FILENAMES set. > > > > Okay, this gave me some info about why the platforms behaves like they do. > It seems strange that G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is not set on RH7.3, but it is > set to 1 on RH9... and apparently it should have been the opposite! > Do this really mean that I can't rely on the default setup on neither > RH7.3 nor RH9 or other Linux distros? > (I haven't done any manual changes around G_BROKEN_FILENAMES.) > I thought (hoped?) the idea was to make it easier to make portable > applications ;-) If G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is set, then the encoding if g_filename_to/from_utf8 is the encoding of your locale. The default locales on RH9 are UTF-8 locales, but you apparently have a different setting. Owen _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
