tech-pkg: glib2 & "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input" when converting file names

Subject: glib2 & "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input" when converting file names
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/12/2004 17:29:00

Hi!

In case you were seeing this error message with
glib2 applications too:
	Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
when converting file names from the file system, the solution
is setting the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable, e.g.:
	export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1
since glib2 assumes that the file system has UTF-8 file names by default.
 Thomas