Re: Linux and UTF8 filenames

["Michael B. Allen" <miallen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:20:30 +0200
Bruno Haible <bhaible@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 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);
>      ...

Or with encdec:

char buf[PATH_MAX];
const char *src = given_string;
dec_mbsncpy(&src, -1, buf, PATH_MAX, -1, given_encoding);
puts(buf);

done.

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