Re: Pango warning: "Invalid UTF-8 string"

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>]

Roger Leigh wrote:
> > It's a filename, an std::string returned by 
> > Gnome::Vfs::FileInfo::get_name().
>
>
> You want the glibmm equivalent of g_filename_to_utf8.

Sweet, that did the job. Thanks. It's called 
Glib::locale_to_utf8().

> You might also want to consider using a UTF-8 locale (de_DE.UTF-8) and
> UTF-8 filenames on disc.

I also considered that, but wasn't sure if I 
really need it. What exactly would be the 
advantage of using UTF-8 over an extended ASCII 
charset?

I have the feeling that other programs may have 
trouble with widebyte charsets (for example, if I 
send UTF-8 encoded in X-Chat, people using MS 
Windows can't read my umlauts either).

Regards,
Matthias