Re: [GSTP-devel] something about charsets

[Daniel R. <no...@me...>]

lör 2002-11-09 klockan 18.41 skrev Tobias Rundström:
> On fre, nov 08, 2002 at 04:09:21 +0100, Daniel Resare wrote:
> > 1) Do nothing. This is the FTP way, and non-ascii paths will not work reliably
> 
> Nah.
> 
> > 2) Do all charset conversion on the client and announce the charset that the
> > server perhaps in the response of the hello command. If opt for this method,
> > it would be a good idea to say that the encoding of the server must be
> > ascii-compatible, so that communicating with the server in pure ascii will
> > always work.
> 
> This is much harder then UTF-8 IMHO.
> 
> > 3) Mandate UTF-8. No charset info would need to be exchanged at on session
> > setup.
> 
> Yes this is the best way in my point of view. It might be some work done in
> the server to get this to work smooth, but then we don't need to answer 1000
> support questions about incorrect charsets and such. 
> 
> GLib contains good functions for utf-8 convertion. We should take a better
> look at them and see how much we can get for "free".
> 

What you're looking for is g_filename_to_utf8()
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#g-filename-to-utf8


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