Re: [Beaver-devel] Gettext and stuff

[Michael Terry]

Leslie Polzer wrote:
> > I may be spending some time this week on Beaver after all -- probably 
> > just the Search/Replace stuff still.  It's coming along nicely, but it's 
> > taking me a bit to wrap my head around the incredibly complex 
> > GtkTreeView family.
>
> I am currently working on the 'Invalid UTF8' problem.
> Try loading about/about.html in Beaver's WWW tree and you
> will see that Beaver refuses to load it because of the
> 'copyright' sign at the end of the file.
>
> g_get_charset() is acting weird. This function is supposed to return
> the current locale's charset, but it gives me 'ANSI_X3.4-1968',
> a charset I have never heard of - and iconv() fails, too.
> With ISO-8859-1 it works and the (C) sign is correctly converted,
> but I guess we have to provide the user with a list where he can
> select the charset he wants. Maybe also a 'Charsets' tab in the
> prefs... or both (radio "ask me every time a conversion must be performed"
> / radio "always use this charset: " -> selection list of charsets).
>
> What do you think?

It really should be possible to autodetect this, right?  Any other 
editor I've used always makes such details invisible to the user.  I 
think we should too.

I didn't get too far into the problem, but I did notice that converting 
to my locale's charset didn't help the problem at all.

Ideally, we could load the file, discover the charset, make a note of 
it, convert the text to UTF-8 so that GtkTextBuffer can handle it, and 
when saving, convert back.

-mt

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