On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> > I've had a problem report from a user of my GTK app on Windows 7,
>
> You mean this is something new in Windows 7 (which I find hard to
> believe), or has this particular user just not used your app on
> earlier Windows versions?

I'll have to find out more, but the problem in question is one
that I believe I'd already solved, testing on XP.  I could be
wrong.

> > from which it looks as if g_locale_to_utf8 has somehow not done
> > the right thing on a Windows filename,
>
> You mean a file name in the encoding the C library uses, or the
> encoding GLib and the GTK+ stack uses? GLib and GTK+ use UTF-8 for
> file names on Windows in their API; all GLib and GTK+ API that accept
> / return file names (or other strings to / from the system like
> environment variable names or values) accept / return them in UTF-8.

This was a file name obtained from Windows itself, not via the
GLib wrapper functions.  I'll look into it further and report back
if it wasn't just a stupid mistake on my part.

Allin Cottrell
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