Re: Folder tree does not display iso-8859-1 characters properly

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2003.04.01 22:43, Martin Uddén wrote:
> When my maildir contains folders/mailboxes having high-byte 
> iso-8859-1 characters in them, the folder tree pane's pango-calls 
> complain that I try to pass illegal UTF-8 to it. The names are 
> truncated after the first high-byte character.
> 
> When these folders/mailboxes are renamed to valid UTF-8, the problem 
> disappears.
> 
> My question is: is this a well known bug in balsa or just a 
> misconfiguration on my part? I searched the gnome bugzilla on balsa, 
> but didn't find anything relevant.
> 
> The problem is not affected by the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment 
> variables.
> 
> A simple fix would be to just convert the iso-8859-1 strings (or 
> whatever codepage) to UTF-8 before asking pango to display them. Any 
> coders on this list?

I have heard the opinion that the filenames are supposed to be in 
UTF-8, otherwise you would see different glyphs depending on your 
locale. Nautilus and the file open/save dialog would have the same 
problems: you would get messages similar to following:

Gtk-Message: The filename "a\366df" couldn't be converted to UTF-8 (try 
setting the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES): Invalid byte 
sequence in conversion input

Or have I completely misunderstood you?

Pawel