[MPlayer-dev-eng] locale in GUI

[Ingo Brückl]

Hans-Dieter Kosch wrote on Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:19:04 +0100:

> Ingo Brückl wrote:
>> Hans-Dieter Kosch wrote on Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:49:17 +0100:
>>
>>> Ingo Brückl wrote:
>>>> Hans-Dieter Kosch wrote on Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:24:29 +0100:
>>>>
>>>>> Ingo Brückl wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Just try a filename with german Umlauts, g_filename_to_utf8() returns NULL
>>>>> with conversion error.
>>>> If that were so, I would have done a really bad job.
>>>>
>>> Oh, sorry. I meant 'g_filename_from_utf8()', not 'g_filename_to_utf8()'.
>>> Seems, I've too much messed up during last time. Bad mistake... :-(
>>
>> No, that works as well.
>>
>> What is your locale? Are your filenames encoded in that locale? Does GLib
>> know about your filename encoding (if not UTF-8)?
>>
> My locale is en_US.UTF-8, the filenames are encoded in that locale.
> My env vars:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale,UTF-8,ISO-8859-15,CP1252
> G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1

Drop the @locale from G_FILENAME_ENCODING.

If your filenames are encoded in UTF-8 you don't need G_FILENAME_ENCODING at
all - and neither G_BROKEN_FILENAMES.

Ingo