Hi! I know, I was away for quite a long time, but now coming back, it seems that only ascii filenames can be made to work properly with the glib perl modules. Just found that out the hard way :().
For example, the perl version of g_bookmark_file_load_from_file interprets the filename as a unicode string, as opposed to a locale-encoded string as the glib function does. As a direct result of this: a) many filenames are simply inaccessible to perl programs (while they work perfectly fine with c programs that have access to the proper API). b) even filenames in utf-8 are inaccessible, as perl, like any other language, handles filenames as binary data, while the Glib perl module forces this binary data to be reinterpreted as utf-8, so a filename originally encoded as utf-8 fails to work properly. This effectively reduces the filenames supported by glib-perl to the ascii characters. I understand that I am partially responsible for this because I chose bad names for the filename functions, which subsequently got used for lots of glib functions that expect filenames, while they were mostly meant for functions expecting utf-8 encoded filenames. In short, while const char * is wrong for filenames, so is almost every use of GPerlFilename when the underlying c function expects a "glib-filename-encoded" path. There is no suitable typemap entry for filenames at the moment (which should use SvPVbytes for all functions taking "glib filename encoding" and SvPVutf for all functions taking utf-8 encoded strings). The question is how to proceed and clean up that mess. (In the past, glib had similar problems by forcing the API to use utf-8, but fortunately most or even all of this has been fixed on the glib side). -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list