Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2005, 13:30 +0100 schrieb Alexander Larsson: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 07:52 +0100, Matthias Kaeppler wrote: > > > .. lots of stuff... > > I'm not sure where the confusion is. I can't talk for the c++ bindings, > but for gnome-vfs itself the rule is: > > * file: URIs have no inherent encoding > > None, nada, zilch. They are the filename as stored on disk, escaped into > a uri. As such, they are essentially escaped byte strings, the only > limit being that zero bytes and '/' bytes are not allowed. This is a > direct result of the fact that unix filenames have no encoding, and is > nothing we can anything do about in gnome-vfs.
I see... that is good to know :) > > In glib there are some functions for handling the encoding of filenames, > namely g_filename_to/from_utf8. These are mainly for displaying and > entering filenames in a UI, since the UI always uses utf8 for all > strings which might not be right for a filename. These functions use > G_BROKEN_FILENAMES and G_FILENAME_ENCODING env vars to determine what > encoding to use for the filenames. However, valid files can still have > names that are not in this encoding, and to be able to e.g. open or > rename such a file gnome-vfs must allow a uri point to it, and such a > uri would not be in the encoding specified by G_FILENAME_ENCODING (nor > would it necessarily be utf8). So basically "if you construct gnome_vfs_uri's, don't bother with g_filename_to/from_utf8 but just leave the filename alone and pass it as-is" ? So Matthias problem was caused just by the actual source code being in a different encoding than the filename encoding on the mountpoint? > > You just have to be very careful about your string encodings. I'd > recommend using hex escapes when specifying a non-ascii string in C > source code. with append_file_name, does that do the escaping by its own (i.e. would it be escaped twice when following your suggestion) ? (and what about append_string, append_path) I'm sure this is written down somewhere, excuse me for being blind :) > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc cheers, Danny _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
