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GTK2 and GTK3 cannot handle Unicode characters in file names

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GNUser:
Rich - Good to know. Thanks.

Two quick questions:

1. Can anyone confirm whether glib2.tcz has been stripped of "unicode tables" in the interest of keeping the extension small?

2. In case these tables are absent from glib2.tcz, how do I obtain them? Can I just copy the relevant files from a different distro?

Rich:
Hi Hi GNUser

--- Quote from: GNUser on December 11, 2019, 06:49:28 PM ---A helpful GNOME/GTK user (developer?) suggested this issue may be due to unicode data tables missing from glib2. He recommended that I try installing glib2-locale.tcz: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/support-for-unicode-characters-in-gtk2-3-file-selection-box/2338/5

Alas, glib2-locale.tcz is not available in the Pure64 repository :( I put in an extension request.
--- End quote ---
Maybe he meant  glibc_gconv.tcz  or  glibc_i18n_locale.tcz (which also contains character maps)?

GNUser:
glibc_gconv.tcz has been loaded all along. Loading glibc_i18n_locale.tcz makes no difference :(

GNUser:
In case this helps, here is a simple way I can trigger the bug: I launch my web browser (iridium, which uses GTK3), go to duckduckgo.com, press Control+p to print, choose "Save as PDF", then click "Save".

The page name (DuckDuckGo – Privacy, simplified.) is automatically selected as the filename for the PDF and the dash (between DuckDuckGo and Privacy) triggers the bug. I cannot print to PDF until I delete the dash in the filename (replacing it with a hyphen, for example).

GNUser:
Solved! This does the trick:


--- Code: ---$ export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=UTF-8

--- End code ---
Make it permanent by adding it to ~/.profile

I found the solution when I stumbled upon this:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/docs/gtk/html/GtkFileChooser.html#GtkFileChooser

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