Re: C character encodings in libgudev and GLibby projects

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From: John Scott <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: C character encodings in libgudev and GLibby projects
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:37:01 -0500
Message-ID: <3068414.k3LOHGUjKi@t450>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <2278381.TLkxdtWsSY@t450> <[email protected]>

On Monday, November 23, 2020 7:04:58 PM EST Allin Cottrell via gnome-devel-
list wrote:
>> If you get a 
>> file name from the file system, for example, from readdir() or 
>> from g_dir_read_name(), and you wish to display the file name to 
>> the user, you will need to convert it into UTF-8.
> Well, only if you're operating on a retro *nix system that doesn't use
> UTF-8.

As a practical issue this may seem very small, but I nevertheless desire to 
support such a system, if nothing else because making such an assumption would 
hinder experimentation. UTF-8 will almost surely be succeeded someday too
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