Bug#217261: galeon: browsing unicode filenames doesn't appear.

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:59:36PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > Also, imagine the problem with using older CDs from before UTF-8 existed
> > for example.
> 
> Yes, I know, but already discussed and re-discussed and
> rerere... upstream will no change it, that's a fact, so we've to live
> with that.
> 
> 
> > dynamically would be nice. Or, some way of just listing those broken
> > filenames in some way.
> 
> Yes, I agree but I doubt that upstreams will make changes on this
> point. BTW you can always try to discuss with them :)
> 
> 
> > That said, it isn't really a galeon problem, but a generic gnome
> > stuff.
> 
> In fact this bug is on gtk+ in the BTS, it has been reassigned for some
> times but the title had not been changed.
> 
> 
> > I wonder if it would be nice to reassign it to the gnome library
> > packages or something such ? Or discuss this on the gnome mailing
> > lists ?
> 
> You can always try to discuss this on a ml, but this point has already
> been discussed a lot of time ...

Ok, sorry for having disturbed you about this. I will just set
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES (and maybe advocate for it being the default for
debian until we fully and officially support UTF-8).

Friendly,

Sven Luther