You should make another version for only Windows, I think that it's better!
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2018, tito-wolit wrote: > > On 21/05/2018 01:27, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> >>> >>> gtk_init_with_args is still useful in my case: it automatically screens >>> out any command-line arguments that are just option flags or parameters, >>> via the GOptionEntry mechanism, leaving only a filename argument to which >>> my program has to respond (but which may be broken in plain argv). >>> Fortunately, it works fine after conversion via g_utf16_to_utf8. So my >>> workflow is: >>> >>> GetCommandLineW >>> CommandLineToArgvW >>> convert array of UTF-16 strings to UTF-8 >>> pass the converted array to gtk_init_with_args >>> >> >> Hi, >> I use: >> >> filename = g_locale_to_utf8((argv*), -1, NULL, NULL, NULL); >> do something with filename >> free(filename) >> >> This works also on windows. >> > > Ah, but it does NOT work in the case I'm talking about, where the filename > in question is not representable in the current Windows Code Page, because > it contains a mixture of character sets. Then the only way to get the real, > non-mangled filename from Windows is in UTF-16 form via GetCommandLineW. > > The problem arises only because Windows doesn't do UTF-8, and so cannot > pass "exotic" filenames via C's argv. > > Allin Cottrell > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
