On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 16:17 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: > When my app displays numerical output, I've been using a "real" > minus sign (U+2212) if the current font supports this (as checked > by pango), since it looks better than the usual hyphen-as-minus. > > The minus sign displays correctly within GTK, but I've noticed > that if the app is running on, e.g. an ISO-8859-1 platform, so > that output has to be recoded for saving to disk or copying to the > clipboard, g_locale_from_utf8 chokes on the minus sign, giving > > "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input" > > I'm not sure if this is exactly a bug, but shouldn't U+2212 get > successfully mapped onto character 45 (0x002D) in ISO-8859-1?
You should use g_filename_from_utf8() to convert to filenames. This is an application development question though, and you should use the gtk-app-devel-list. Cheers _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list