Re: Invalid UTF-8... the comeback :-)

[enrique perez-terron norway online no]

Emmanuel Saracco <esaracco@noos.fr> writes:

> hi all,
> 
> how can I display caracters like "²" with gtk2?
> I always have the now famous "[Invalid UTF-8]" message...
> 
> encoding my string with "g_string_append_unichar" like advised by havoc
> pennington in
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2002-November/msg00325.html
> do nothing :-(
> 
> thanks,
> 
> bye
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            /*untested*/
char *
quick_n_dirty_latin_to_utf8(char *in)
{
   char *out;
   char *p = in;
   int c, len = 0;

   while (c = *p++)
      if (c < 128)
        len++;
      else
        len += 2;

   p = out = g_malloc(len+1);

   while (c = *in++)
      if (*in < 128)
        *p++ = c;
      else {
        *p++ = 0xc0 | (c >> 6);
        *p++ = 0x80 | (c & 0x3f);
      }

   *p = 0;
   return out;
}

There are a number of character encoding functions in GLib, you should
rather use them.

If you have gtk-doc installed, 

file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib/glib-character-set-conversion.html