No one's converting the GTK+ stack away from UTF-8. Don't let all the talk intimidate you.
behdad Thomas Stover wrote: > Please, please, please don't switch to UTF-16. To me gtk is about > getting to use technologies that are "solid", "real", "fun", and > "effective". Principally, that means C and *nix. UTF-8 is the greatest > thing for one reason that kills all the others: solid compatibility with > both of the above. I think gtk on 'doz is the coolest thing, and an > extra file name conversion here and there is totally acceptable and then > some. Siting the way other software does things just shows why gtk > delivers so much. As an application developer, sticking with utf-8 all > day long and not worrying about it is just awesome. Yes I do have to > worry about it sometimes, like when I use .fred pinvoke() wrappers, some > 'doz python issues, etc., but just use the appropriate conversion > function and move on. > > ... I wonder if g_print() will deliver extended characters to the win32 > console the right way.... > ... I also wonder if you read text from a cgi form variable how you > would even know what encoding it's in... > ...cutting extended character text in windows and pasting it into gtk > and having everything automatically work is fantastic btw... > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
