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@ -31,18 +31,27 @@ Notes about GLib 2.6.0
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on-disk encoding on Unix, but UTF-8 on Windows. All GLib functions
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returning or accepting pathnames have been changed to expect
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filenames in this encoding, and the common POSIX functions dealing
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with pathnames have been wrapped. On Windows these wrappers use the
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wide-character API to do the actual file handling, so applications
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can handle file names containing any Unicode characters, not just
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those in the system codepage. (Wide character API is not available
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on Win9x.)
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with pathnames have been wrapped. These wrappers are declared in the
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header <glib/gstdio.h> which must be included explicitly, it is not
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included through <glib.h>.
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On current (NT-based) Windows versions, where the on-disk file names
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are Unicode, these wrappers use the wide-character API in the C
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library. Thus applications can handle file names containing any
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Unicode characters through GLib's own API and its POSIX wrappers,
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not just file names restricted to characters in the system codepage.
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To keep binary compatibility with applications compiled against
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older versions of GLib, the Windows DLL still provides entry points
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with the old semantics using the old names, and applications
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compiled agains GLib 2.6 will actually use new names for the
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compiled against GLib 2.6 will actually use new names for the
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functions. This is transparent to the programmer.
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When compiling against GLib 2.6, applications intended to be
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portable to Windows must take the UTF-8 file name encoding into
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consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
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names have been constructed from strings returned from GLib.
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* Likewise, g_get_user_name() and g_get_real_name() have been changed to return
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UTF-8 on Windows, while keeping the old semantics for applications compiled
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against older versions of GLib.
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