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Matthias Kaeppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
>>> It's a filename, an std::string returned by
>>> Gnome::Vfs::FileInfo::get_name().
>> You want the glibmm equivalent of g_filename_to_utf8.
>
> Sweet, that did the job. Thanks. It's called
> Glib::locale_to_utf8().
There's also a Glib::filename_to_utf8(). I'm not sure what the
differences are, though. Perhaps you can have different locale and
disc encodings?
>> You might also want to consider using a UTF-8 locale (de_DE.UTF-8) and
>> UTF-8 filenames on disc.
>
> I also considered that, but wasn't sure if I
> really need it. What exactly would be the
> advantage of using UTF-8 over an extended ASCII
> charset?
Well, you can use all those other neat characters, like symbols,
proper „quotes”.
> I have the feeling that other programs may have
> trouble with widebyte charsets (for example, if I
> send UTF-8 encoded in X-Chat, people using MS
> Windows can't read my umlauts either).
It works fine for me. That's probably an issue with the Windows IRC
client.
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