[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use _NET_WM_NAME for UTF-8 title in X11 if supported

[Uoti Urpala]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 22:33 +0200, Rickard Närström wrote:
> No, filesystem encoding is specified by LC_CTYPE locale setting. Some

Not quite - that's what encoding the current user presumably creates
files in, if there are other users using different non-utf-8 locales
then they can all create filenames in different encodings on the same
filesystem (which is a reason why using something other than utf-8 or
plain ASCII on a multiuser systems sucks).

> filesystem throw have special rules for character encoding (VFAT, NTFS, SMBFS

Rather they have restrictions on allowed filenames, such as requiring
it's a valid string in some encoding.

> etc.) but if I have understand things correctly the kernel/libc will convert 
> those filenames to LC_CTYPE charset.

No, there are no conversions on normal Unix filesystems. Either the
filesystem will use the byte sequence given by the application or reject
it as an invalid filename.