Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: gtk2 gui

[Jay Hap-hang Yu]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:39:02PM +0200, Petter E. Stokke wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 16:24, Jay Hap-hang Yu wrote:
> > will the new GTK2 gui support UTF-8 file name?
> 
> I think it's more a matter of mldonkey not supporting UTF-8. If the GUI
> knew what kind of charset it was getting from the core, it ought to be
> able to deal with UTF-8 just fine (generally speaking, mlgui doesn't
> understand Unicode at all). As far as I know, OCaml doesn't support
> Unicode, and so the mldonkey core doesn't either.

I understand that OCaml relies on 3rd party modules to support unicode.
However, can mlnet accept a ed2k link containig utf-8 chars in the
filename part, and write (commit) the file to incoming "as is"? by doing
so, will the unicode chars in the filename be preserved??

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