[MPlayer-dev-eng] locale in GUI

[Ingo Brückl]

Hans-Dieter Kosch wrote on Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:24:37 +0100:

> the function g_filename_to_utf8() used in the GUI (fileselect.c,
> playlist.c) doesn't return a filename containing characters outside the
> standard ASCII range.

Please elaborate. I didn't notice any problems so far.

> This is because setting the locale is disabled by gtk_disable_setlocale()
> in gui/dialog/dialog.c (r22126) and thus glib works on the "C" locale. Does
> anybody remember the reason?

See
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2010-December/067107.html

Ingo