Re: Fix locale for grip?

Bjorn Solberg writes:

> In Fedora Core 3, grip 3.2.0 and 3.3.0 insists on writing filenames using
> UTF-8 even though I have

> $ locale
> LANG=C
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_PAPER="C"
> LC_NAME="C"
> LC_ADDRESS="C"
> LC_TELEPHONE="C"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
> LC_ALL=C

> both when compiling it and when running it.  I need it to use iso-8859-1
> for the filenames, as gtkpod (and my iPod) doesn't understand UTF-8.
> Certain characters (like æ, ø, å) end up in the weird two-byte
> representation instead of their proper iso-8859-1 encoding.

> Setting the locale to en_US doesn't do any good either since it seems to
> default to a UTF-8 encoding.

> I've even set the locale in Config => ID3/DiscDB to ISO-8859-1, but to no
> avail - grip still writes file names using UTF-8.  Looking through the
> archives, I have tried to set G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale but that did no
> good.

> Grip worked fine in RH9, so I suspect it has something to do with FC 3.
> If anyone has any pointers or help on how I can make Grip write filenames
> in ISO-8859-1 encoding, I'd greatly appreciate it.

For those who may be interested, I found that all this is actually
hard coded in the Grip source.  Replacing instances of utf-8 with
iso-8859-1 in the source (and a few other modifications) and recompiling
took care of the problem.

What was the reason for making the move to UTF-8, when it breaks WRT
CDDB, iPod and who knows what else?

Bjorn.


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