> I am trying add contents to clist from a file which contains filenames,
I asume this is on Linux or some other POSIX system? File names in POSIX are not necessarily in any enforced consistent character set and/or encoding. File names are just a string of bytes. Especially on older file systems or multiprotocol network file servers that have a history of being mounted on machines running different operating systems with users using random locales it is not uncommon to come across inconsistent charsets in file names. You can use g_filename_display_name() to reliably get a UTF-8 "display" form of a file name. This might then contain one or several instances of the "Unicode replacement character" if GLib can't figure out the charset/encoding of the file name. If you have knowledge of the history of the site, you could write some code that tries some known legacy charsets/encoding if the name isn't in UTF-8 (in case UTF-8 is what currently is generally used at the site, as one might hope). Possibly even with some mapping table like "this user's home directory is likely to contain file names in Hebrew in ISO8859-8, this user's in Russian in KOI-8", etc. But anyway, basically you are out of luck. --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
