non UTF-8 locale / Gtk / non Gtk app / filenames with accents

[Eric SCHAEFFER]

Le vendredi 01 octobre 2004 à 00:46 +0200, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> Le vendredi 01 octobre 2004 à 00:32 +0200, Eric SCHAEFFER a écrit :
> 
> According to /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-0/README.gz:
> 
> " If you have filenames encoded in the encoding of your locale, then
>   you may want to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable:
> 
>    G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@local
>    export G_FILENAME_ENCODING"

Thank's. I didn't know where to look for..

> > 2/ Ubuntu team should do something (Firebird and OpenOffice aren't in
> > universe ;)
> 
> Planned for the next release.
> 
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HoaryHedgehog
> -> "System level changes (change immediately as Hoary is opened)
> * UTF-8 from the ground up"

Cool ;)

But if I reconfigure locales on my warty install to have fr_FR.UTF-8 as
the default one, will I have problems with console programs ?

> > Before I install Ubuntu, I was under Debian sid, with fr_FR.UTF-8 at euro
> 
> UTF-8 at euro is a bug since UTF-8 has an euro symbol, you should use
> fr_FR.UTF-8 (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1755)

Good to know. Thank's.

Eric

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sebastien Bacher
> 
>