[FreeBSD port]: devel/glib20

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Stanislav,

This "nasty" GLib behavior is for a reason. Well at least from the CJK
biased GLib developers point of view :-) The belief is there are reasonable
amount of users who switches between UTF and non-UTF locales often. ATM
GLib tries to validate filename as UTF-8 encoded first and fallback to the
current locale encoding if it is not. This does not look normal to me but
anyway.

So if G_FILENAME_ENCODING thing is not broken by itself I suggest you to
add this to your local .login_conf or do the same in the system wide
/etc/login.conf if you like:

me:\
    :setenv=G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale: \
    ...

And we may want to add this to the FAQ.

All the best,
Alexander.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:10:49 +0300, Stanislav Sedov <stas at freebsd.org>
wrote:
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> Alexander Nedotsukov <bland at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
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>> 
>> Did you say that this does not work as advertised?
>> 
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-running.html
>> 
> 
> I believe this should work "by default". Not after setting some weird
> 3rd party environment variables. And this is what users expect.
> Furthermore, this is how major Linux distributions behave.
> 
> That is especially true for FreeBSD, where most users don't use utf
> locales and hurt by this problem. Doesn't totally broken filenames
> look like a bug for you? In FreeBSD it's stated that everything should
> work after setting LANG, why glib apps should be an exception from this
> rule?
> 
> - -- 
> Stanislav Sedov
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