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Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

Martin Kochanski writes:

> how can a poor innocent server discover enough about the
> context in which it is running to know what filename it has to
> use so that a
> user who lists a file directory will see "Rêve" on his screen?

Since it depends on the user's locale, you'll have to convert the
filename from the given encoding to the user's locale encoding.
Start out with

     const char *given_encoding = "UTF-8";
     // or "UTF-16", depends on what you have
     const char *localedependent = "";
     // shortcut for glibc or libiconv
     iconv_t cd = iconv_open (localedependent, given_encoding);
     ...

Bruno


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