problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> *however* when i save a file via the gtk save dialog (lets say from within
> chromium), the filename only gets displayed correctly in the gtk open dialog.
> 
> saving a file "ÄÖÜäöüß.html" from chromium's gtk dialog returns the following
> under the console or an X term:
> 
> otaku% ls|grep html|hd 
> 00000000  c3 84 c3 96 c3 9c c3 a4  c3 b6 c3 bc c3 9f 2e 68  |Ã.Ã.Ã.ÀöÌÃ..h|
> 00000010  74 6d 6c 0a                                       |tml.|
> 00000014

That's a UTF-8 representation; c3 84 is Unicode U+00C4 aka "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS".  

> when i start gnome and use the open dialog both the `touch`ed "ÄÖÜäöüß" file as
> well as the "ÄÖÜäöüß.html" saved by chromium looks fine.
> 
> is gtk maybe switching to unicode when saving non-asciichars, instead to
> ISO8859-15? however when it accesses a filename it can understand unicode as
> well as ISO8859-15?

Yes, that appears to be the case.

> can i instruct gtk to always use ISO8859-15 when saving filenames?

Dunno.  Fortunately, ISO 8859-15 can be stored on FreeBSD's UFS filesystem without lossage-- other character sets can't since UFS doesn't do Unicode per se, just UTF-8.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck