[Gtk-sharp-list] Re: [MonoDevelop] Encoding problems

[John Luke]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 07:22 -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 17:38, Artur Brodowski wrote:
> > W liście z czw, 15-04-2004, godz. 22:52, John Luke pisze: 
> > > Does it work if you add -codepage:utf8 to the mcs compile line?
> > Yes, it works, thanks :)
> > But shouldn't that be taken care of by MonoDevelop? 
> > And also - is UTF-16 a standard for Gtk# applications?
> 
> Not having used MonoDevelop yet (yes, I'm evil!), I can only guess...
> 
> I suspect the problem is the lack of a BOM (Byte Order Mark), which
> would let the compiler know the byte order of the file.
> 
> UTF-16 requires the presence of a BOM (0xFFFE or OXFEFF, depending on
> big-endian or little-endian, not necessarily in that order), so if the
> BOM is present the compiler will know what codepage to use.
> 
> UTF-8 doesn't require it.  Which means it is impossible to distinguish
> between a UTF-8 encoded file and a file encoded in the local codepage. 
> Consequently, mcs assumes that the local codepage is used.
> 
> The solution is to either tell mcs the correct codepage, which is what
> -codepage:UTF-8 does, or to insert a UTF-8 encoded BOM at the beginning
> of the file.
> 
> Or, fix MonoDevelop so that it always passes -codepage:UTF-8, as it's
> using GtkSourceView, which edits UTF-8 text, so it's unlikely that
> another encoding would be used...
> 

For the record, I added /codepage:utf8 to the default for MonoDevelop,
please test it and report any problems you may find with it.