[Mono-devel-list] Re: patch for: Non ASCII characters infilenames/ command line parameters

[Dick Porter]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:08, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> On 21 okt 2003, joergr at voelcker.com wrote:
> 
> > If it's not possible to change this behaviour entirely, how about
> > using an environment variable to change behaviour from default
> > (UTF8) to current locale encoding of filenames?
> 
> G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is what GTK uses these days.

G_BROKEN_FILENAMES doesn't help.

Firstly, locale-encoded filenames are not BROKEN, by any stretch of the
imagination.  Secondly, expecting end users to know about internals of
glib filename handling is stupid.  And anyway, it doesn't work because
Jôrg wants newly created files to have names with locale encodings and
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES doesn't apply there.

- Dick