1 files changed, 5 insertions, 62 deletions
diff --git a/src/Fl.cxx b/src/Fl.cxx
index 399d8249b..07e107b1d 100644
--- a/src/Fl.cxx
+++ b/src/Fl.cxx
@@ -2572,73 +2572,16 @@ FL_EXPORT const char* fl_local_alt   = Fl::system_driver()->alt_name();
 FL_EXPORT const char* fl_local_ctrl  = Fl::system_driver()->control_name();
 
 /**
-  Convert Windows commandline arguments to UTF-8.
-
-  \note This function does nothing on other (non-Windows) platforms, hence
-    you may call it on all platforms or only on Windows by using platform
-    specific code like <tt>'\#ifdef _WIN32'</tt> etc. - it's your choice.
-    Calling it on other platforms returns quickly w/o wasting much CPU time.
-
-  This function <i>must be called <b>on Windows platforms</b></i> in \c main()
-  before the array \c argv is used if your program uses any commandline
-  argument strings (these should be UTF-8 encoded).
-  This applies also to standard FLTK commandline arguments like
-  "-name" (class name) and "-title" (window title in the title bar).
-
-  Unfortunately Windows \b neither provides commandline arguments in UTF-8
-  encoding \b nor as Windows "Wide Character" strings in the standard
-  \c main() and/or the Windows specific \c WinMain() function.
-
-  On Windows platforms (no matter which build system) this function calls
-  a Windows specific function to retrieve commandline arguments as Windows
-  "Wide Character" strings, converts these strings to an internally allocated
-  buffer (or multiple buffers) and returns the result in \c argv.
-  For implementation details please refer to the source code; however these
-  details may be changed in the future.
-
-  Note that \c argv is provided by reference so it can be overwritten.
-
-  In the recommended simple form the function overwrites the variable
-  \c argv and allocates a new array of strings pointed to by \c argv.
-  You may use this form on all platforms and it is as simple as adding
-  one line to old programs to make them work with international (UTF-8)
-  commandline arguments.
+  Ensure commandline arguments are UTF-8 encoded.
 
-  \code
-    int main(int argc, char **argv) {
-      Fl::args_to_utf8(argc, argv);   // add this line
-      // ... use argc and argv, e.g. for commandline parsing
-      window->show(argc, argv);
-      return Fl::run();
-    }
-  \endcode
-
-  For an example see 'examples/howto-parse-args.cxx' in the FLTK sources.
-
-  If you want to retain the original \c argc and \c argv variables the
-  following slightly longer and more complicated code works as well on
-  all platforms.
+  On X11 this is a no-op since arguments are already in the locale encoding
+  which is typically UTF-8 on modern systems.
 
-  \code
-    int main(int argc, char **argv) {
-      char **argvn = argv;            // must copy argv to work on all platforms
-      int argcn = Fl::args_to_utf8(argc, argvn);
-      // ... use argcn and argvn, e.g. for commandline parsing
-      window->show(argcn, argvn);
-      return Fl::run();
-    }
-  \endcode
-
-  \param[in]    argc    used only on non-Windows platforms
-  \param[out]   argv    modified only on Windows platforms
+  \param[in]    argc    argument count
+  \param[out]   argv    argument array
   \returns  argument count (always the same as argc)
 
   \since 1.4.0
-
-  \internal This function must not open the display, otherwise
-    commandline processing (e.g. by fluid) would open the display.
-    OTOH calling it when the display is opened wouldn't work either
-    for the same reasons ('fluid -c' doesn't open the display).
 */
 int Fl::args_to_utf8(int argc, char ** &argv) {
   return Fl::system_driver()->args_to_utf8(argc, argv);