UTF-8 and filenames
Alexander Larsson
alexl at redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 10:51:23 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:49 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 18:22 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > We can and we should standardize at least at the user space level.
> > People expect consistency from a distribution and the tools it ships.
>
> We've already standardized. UTF-8 is what Nautilus and Gnome/gtk file
> selectors and every other GUI app expects and uses.
Gnome user can change this with the G_FILENAME_ENCODING env var. Set it
to a comma separated list of encodings, with @locale meaning the
encoding of the current locale.
Gnome/Gtk apps wanting to display filenames should use
g_filename_to/from_utf8() so that they properly handle this.
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