Currently Inkscape fails in numerous ways when you try to name your file with non-ascii characters. For one thing, it records that filename into preferences.xml using the locale encoding, which is invalid UTF-8, which causes parser to reject the file upon the next load and the preferences are simply lost.
Can anyone give any advice on how to deal with this problem? I know about g_locale_to/from_utf8() but the question is, where is the best place to put these functions. It looks like all standard file-related functions (gtk_file_selection_get_filename, file opening and saving, etc) require the filename in locale encoding, but all display functions (setting window title, display in XML editor, recent files menu) require UTF-8. And of course, serialized XML must get UTF-8 too. Looks like there are quite a lot of places where I'll need to translate between the encodings, and I'm afraid it will become pretty messy.
I'm not going to experiment with this but if anyone has any inshights on this problem I would appreciate any help.
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