On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 17:36 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:54 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 01:01 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > We are wrapping the g_content_type_* functions for giomm, and have a > > > question: > > > > > > Can/must the content strings here be UTF-8, or are they a blob of data > > > of unknown encoding (a bit like a URI) > > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/gio-GContentType.html > > > > I'm not sure. I mean, on unix they are mimetypes, and on windows they > > are extension strings like ".doc", "audio", "*". Both of these will in > > practice be ASCII strings in all cases, but I don't think there is > > anything prohibiting e.g. adding a non-ascii type in the windows > > registry which then could be returned to the app via gio. > > Could that mean that they are ever some odd encoding such as UCS2, which > would not be UTF-8?
Actually, looking at the win32 the registry is stored in unicode and we always convert to UTF-8 in libgio. _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list gnome-vfs-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list