On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:54:51AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:25:25PM -0800, Daniel Yek wrote: > > I am attempting to handle raw filenames (which may be encoded differently > > than the character set used by the filesystem) gracefully. > > > [...] > > with a raw character outside of UTF-8 character set): > > > > Character: P r e s e n t a c i ó n ó . s x i > > Hex code: 50 72 65 73 65 6e 74 61 63 69 f3 6e c3 b3 2e 73 78 69 > > > > To be converted to this: > > Character: P r e s e n t a c i % f 3 n ó . s x i > > Hex code: 50 72 65 73 65 6e 74 61 63 69 25 66 33 6e c3 b3 2e 73 78 69 > > And how is the converter supposed to guess that this "raw character" > (here 0xf3 and perhaps lots of following bytes) has to be interpreted as > an iso-8859-1 (or iso-8859-2) encoded thing (what you seem to imply > here)? This could be as well an "??" or an "??" (to cite some unibyte > encodings...
I suppose the goal is to preserve information about the bytes in a situation their interpretation (i.e. what characters they represent) is already lost, and in that case your question is void. Whether or not this can be actually helpful I will not judge. OP: I doubt there is any function doing this, but UTF-8 validation is very simple so you can write the function easily yourself. Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
