On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 06:57 +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > What is buggy is enforcing their use for glib functions expecting filenames. > And this is clearly against the documentation: > > c-glib "f" documents a filename as input > perl does f (filename_from_unicode (string)) > perl expects unicode as filename > > Problem is that not all filenames are representable as unicode. The > conversion functions are required to exist, but only the useR/developer > knows wether his filename is a unicode filename or a native OS filename, > glib _cannot_ decide this for him.
Thanks for the very clear explanation. What does all this boil down to, though? How should the GPerlFilename typemap look? If it can't be fixed, which new typemaps do we need and what should they do? -- Bye, -Torsten _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
