Re: [Xlog-discussion] UTF8 support in 0.9cvs, and other wishes

[Joop Stakenborg]

Tomi Manninen wrote:
> As I have been playing with this in gmfsk, I'll jump in with a small
> warning. The g_locale_to_utf8() call may be a bit dangerous in some 
> situations as the users locale might also be (mis)configured so that
> the charset used in the configuration does not accept 8 bit characters
> at all. The call then fails if it encounters any 8 bit chars and
> returns NULL. This might not be an issue in xlog but it's worth to have 
> good error checking and handling when using it (or use g_convert() with
> explicit charsets). I learned this the hard way when Carl ported gmfsk 
> to BSD.. :)

Thanks Tomi,

hopefully we will have enough betatesters to get xlog UTF-8 proof.
I have added error checking on log-reading, it prints to the console. I 
guess I could popup a message window in case things go wrong.

> And btw g_locale_to_utf8() allocates the returned string so the
> strdup above is not needed.
>
> Oh, and another potential source of problems is filenames. If you have
> configurable filenames you need to convert them with 
> g_filename_from_utf8() before using...

Good point, people could use special language characters for lognames 
and paths.

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