[Gtk-gnutella-devel]Re: GTKG chooses wrong charset/encoding for filenames on disk

[<Rap...@po...>]

Quoting Christian Biere <chr...@gm...> from ml.softs.gtk-gnutell=
a.devel:
:My conclusion is:
:If your locale encoding is not UTF-8 and an UTF-8 encoded filename
:is compatible with your locale encoding and the environment variable
:G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is set, Gtk-Gnutella shall convert the filename
:to your locale encoding. Otherwise, the filename shall be kept as-is.

G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is a superbly arrogantly-named variable.

My filenames are not UTF-8 encoded, they are ISO-8859-1 and I don't
consider that "broken" in any way as long as I know that it's the
encoding I use and I want to keep for now.

I've also noticed what I consider bogus filenames (i.e. UTF-8 encoded)
generated by GTKG.  That's very wrong.  GTKG has no right to assume I
want UTF-8 encoding for my filenames.

The problem is not trivial to solve.  Nowhere is there any real way to
say what the local encoding of filenames should be for "foreign" filename=
s
transmitted from the network.

UTF-8 is really THE only encoding that should be used when transmitting
filenames on Gnutella.  There is no question about it.  However, I strong=
ly
disagree about having my filenames UTF-8 encoded.  For historical reasons=
,
my filenames are ISO-8859-1 encoded, and I intend to keep it that way bec=
ause
it's my business.

I don't want to set G_BROKEN_FILENAMES before launching gtk-gnutella beca=
use
that would be admitting I'm doing something wrong to some glib/gtk/gnome
self-proclaimed "filenaming authority" and I don't think I'm doing anythi=
ng
wrong.

My conclusion:

GTKG must be smart and try to apply the best heuristics it can to do
"the right thing" in 99% of the cases.

My environment says:

	LANG=3Dfr_FR
	LC_COLLATE=3DC
	LC_MESSAGES=3DC
	LC_TIME=3DC
	LC_MONETARY=3DC
	LC_NUMERIC=3DC

It makes sense to infer from that that my filenames are ISO-8859-1 encode=
d.
GTKG needs to know to convert them to UTF-8 anyway.  So it can also
perform the conversion back.

Raphael