Hi, Kelly Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29 Aug 2001 14:44:49 +0200, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>Has this been reported as a bug in GTK? > > >Huh? It's not a bug, it's a feature. All strings in GTK+-2.0 are > >UTF-8 encoded and the application has to assure that only valid UTF-8 > >strings end up at the toolkit level. This is the only reasonable > >solution to the encoding mess and it works just perfect. It allows > >for example to have different languages with different "native" > >encodings in the same widget. Why do you consider this a bug? > > In my opinion, a library which crashes when fed inappropriate external > data is buggy by definition. actually the current version in CVS does not crash if compiled with debugging support (a few days ago it used to crash but this has been fixed) but spews warnings. The fact that only valid UTF-8 strings should be passed to GTK+-2.0 is well documented, so if a crash occurs due to this, it's an application bug and needs to be fixed at the application level. For simple performance reasons this is IMO a perfectly valid approach. Salut, Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
- [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.po Christophe Merlet
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Sven Neumann
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Christophe Merlet
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Sven Neumann
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Christophe Merlet
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/... Sven Neumann
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Kelly Martin
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Sven Neumann
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Kelly Martin
- UTF8 in GTK+ 2.0 (was Re: [Gimp-developer] ... Sven Neumann
- UTF8 in GTK+ 2.0 (was Re: [Gimp-developer] ... Nick Lamb
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Larry Ewing
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Kelly Martin
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Stephen Robert Norris
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/... Stephen J Baker
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Kelly Martin
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Stephen Robert Norris
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.p... Kelly Martin
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/... Stephen Robert Norris
- Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/... Kelly Martin