[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Provide utf-8 command line arguments on Windows (#1258)

[Matthew Brush]

codebrainz commented on this pull request.



> @@ -1032,4 +1032,31 @@ gchar *win32_get_user_config_dir(void)
 	return g_build_filename(g_get_user_config_dir(), "geany", NULL);
 }
 
+
+void win32_make_argc_and_argv_in_utf8(gint *pargc, gchar ***pargv)
+{
+	int num_arg;
+	LPWSTR *szarglist = CommandLineToArgvW(GetCommandLineW(), &num_arg);
+	char **utf8argv = g_new0(char *, num_arg + 1);
+	int i = num_arg;
+	while(i)
+	{
+		i--;
+		utf8argv[i] = g_utf16_to_utf8((gunichar2 *)szarglist[i], -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);

> that Windows API is a lot more annoying to use for us

It's not _a lot_ more annoying, just `WideCharToMultiByte` with `CPUTF8`. Could even write a little function like `win32_wide_to_utf8` that hides the pre-flight pass and allocates the memory with GLib's allocator. It's maybe 5-10 lines of code to write that function.

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