[Haskell-cafe] Core packages and locale support

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 6/25/10 17:05 , Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> By the way, GTK (which internally uses UTF-8 for strings) treats this
> problem differently -- it has special variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING and
> also G_BROKEN_FILENAMES (which means that filenames are encoded as
> locale says). I have no clue how their G_* variables are better than our
> conventional LC_* variables though.
> http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html

I would assume what they really mean by this is that the filename encoding
should be part of the file metadata and G_BROKEN_FILENAMES means it isn't.
G_FILENAME_ENCODING would then be the encoding used when creating new files.

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