Re: displaying a multilanguage file

[john vivian <viv veeev com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 18:50, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 18:21, john vivian wrote:
> >         Would anyone know where i might find information on how to
> >         load a file with characters from several languages into a
> >         GtkTextBuffer?  Are there glib functions to handle this?
> 
> It just works, nothing different than inserting text one language.
> 
> To extend on that:
> 
>  - All text in GTK+ must be encoded in UTF-8. There are routines
>    in GLib for converting between different encodings.
> 
>  - You may get better rendering by telling Pango what language
>    something is using the "language" property of GtkTextTag.	Hi Owen.

	Thanks for the quick reply.

	What functions should i be using to read the file?  i have
	been using fgetc or fgets, and inserting the result directly
	into the textbuffer, but i will get errors is there are non-
	printable characters.  i have tried playing around with some
	of the g_* unicode / utf8 functions, but have not found the
	right combination.

	i am unsure as to the language necessary when inserting, and
	will need to display several languages in one file.  i have
	been testing against a test file located here:

		http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/quickbrown.txt

	i believe my problem is that multi-byte characters are not
	being handled properly when reading them from the file.

	Thanks again for any help.

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john vivian <viv@veeev.com>