[MPlayer-dev-eng] locale in GUI

[Reimar Döffinger]

"Ingo Brückl" <ib at wupperonline.de> wrote:

>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.

I don't know how easy it would be, but it would be possible to avoid this issue for our GUI by never using the _from_utf8 function but instead storing the original string alongside the utf8 encoded one.