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Diffstat (limited to 'glib')
| -rw-r--r-- | glib/gerror.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/glib/gerror.c b/glib/gerror.c index 82bf626ed..222db1cc2 100644 --- a/glib/gerror.c +++ b/glib/gerror.c @@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ * function (the file being opened, or whatever - though in the * g_file_get_contents() case, the @message already contains a filename). * + * Since error messages may be displayed to the user, they need to be valid + * UTF-8 (all GTK widgets expect text to be UTF-8). Keep this in mind in + * particular when formatting error messages with filenames, which are in + * the 'filename encoding', and need to be turned into UTF-8 using + * g_filename_to_utf8(), g_filename_display_name() or g_utf8_make_valid(). + * * Note, however, that many error messages are too technical to display to the * user in an application, so prefer to use g_error_matches() to categorize errors * from called functions, and build an appropriate error message for the context |