Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > > E.g. Gtk-2.x uses UTF-8 almost exclusively, although you can force the > > use of the locale's encoding for filenames (if you have filenames in > > multiple encodings, you lose; filenames using the "wrong" encoding > > simply don't appear in file selectors). > > Actually they do appear, even though you can't type their names > from the keyboard. The name shown in the GUI used to be escaped in > different ways by different programs or even different places in one > program (question marks, %hex escapes \oct escapes), but recently > they added some functions to glib to make the behavior uniform.
In the last version of Gtk-2.x which I tried, "invalid" filenames are just omitted from the list. Gtk-1.x displayed them (I think with question marks, but it may have been a box). I've just tried with a more recent version (2.6.2); the default behaviour is similar, although you can now get around the issue by using G_FILENAME_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1. Of course, if your locale is a long way from ISO-8859-1, that isn't a particularly good solution. The best test case would be a system used predominantly by Japanese, where (apparently) it's common to have a mixture of both EUC-JP and Shift-JIS filenames (occasionally wrapped in ISO-2022, but usually raw). -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
