Comment 9 for bug 8256

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:15:17 +0200
From: Laurent Martelli <email address hidden>
To: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272478: libglib2.0-0: Shouldn't require to set
 G_FILENAME_ENCODING in non UTF-8 locale

>>>>> "Sebastien" == Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> writes:

  Sebastien> severity 272478 wishlist tag 272478 + wontfix thanks

  Sebastien> Hi,

  Sebastien> This has already been discuted again and again upstream,
  Sebastien> there is no better solution than the current one to have
  Sebastien> a working utf-8 support. I'll add some pointers to
  Sebastien> previous discussion a big later. For the moment I change
  Sebastien> the severity of the bug to wishlist + wontfix since
  Sebastien> upstreams are not going to change that.

If a user wants UTF-8 filenames, shouldn't he use an utf-8 locale ?
And all will be fine for him with a patch like mine. The current
behavious is completly bogus with a non utf-8 locale since programs
use the locale's encoding for filenames. Am I missing something ?

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