From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2011-12-20T16:17:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41742] Re: Feature : optional argument in File.join

Hi,

(11/12/20 15:55), Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:12, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>>> http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Gtk%3A%3AFileSelection
>>>
>>> which says :
>>>
>>> filename=(filename)
>>>     Sets a default path for the file requestor. If filename includes a
>>> directory path, then the requestor will open with that path as its
>>> current working directory. The encoding of filename is the on-disk
>>> encoding, which may not be UTF-8. See GLib.filename_from_utf8.
>>
>> It's a bug of that ruby binding.  It should absorb such platform
>> differences.
> 
> Well, it���s actually a problem with Gtk, not the Ruby binding for it.

I meant, if Gtk doesn't accept slashes as file separators, then the
binding library has to convert them.

-- 
Nobu Nakada