state of umlaut and other char stuff problem

Mon Jul 28 04:06:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Rutishauser <simon.rutishauser@gmx.ch> writes:

Simon> a while ago we discussed here a problem of mine:
I don't remember that discussion, sorry.
Simon> gcj apps, when working with the File-Class have problems with
Simon> files in whose name are chars like the german umlauts, and
Simon> spanish tildes
What locale are you using? What character set?
Right now libgcj (bogusly) assumes that everybody is using UTF-8.
That is probably the problem.
Really we should always convert file names into the default locale's
character set. This would be a fairly simple change but it would
affect several places in libgcj.
Tom