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.
On RH7: locale gives LANG=en_GB LC_CTYPE="en_GB" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB" LC_TIME="en_GB" LC_COLLATE="en_GB" LC_MONETARY="en_GB" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB" LC_PAPER="en_GB" LC_NAME="en_GB" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB" LC_ALL=
and env gives no G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
On RH9: locale gives LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_DK.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
and env gives G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
So it seems that my locales should be okay, but not the G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
Are there anything else than the locale/language setup that could cause G_BROKEN_FILENAMES to be erroneous?
(And actually the machine with RH9 is installed with a minimum of changes of default settings, simply as one of its purposes is to have a 'clean' reference to test programs on.)
Best regards Egon Andersen
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