Re: question about encoding

[Axel <axel azerty netcourrier com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 09:41, Axel wrote:
>  
>
> > hi
> > I m trying to open and read file which contains accentued characters 
> > like éèùà
> > so
> > I open a file, with GIOChannel and read the strings
> > but what is the function to get the encoding ?
> > I didn' t found it in API
> > I have seen call to convert to utf8 but it needs the original encoding 
> > from the string, and I didn' t found how to get it.
> > Someone could help me ?
> >    
>
> How can GLib know this? 
>
> You can use g_get_charset() to find out the encoding of the
> user's locale, but that doesn't necessarily correspond to
> the encoding of a particular file on disk.
>
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
>  
Yes but imagine there are some people (me , by example) who have locales 
set to "POSIX"
and have though files with accentued characters, this don' t solve 
problems.
the problem is when I use g-io_channel_read*
I get the error : "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input" because 
glib wait for utf8 and found char like éééé orààà
so I found that :g_io_channel_set_encoding()
it take in argument the GIOChannel and an encoding, in a string
so passing "UTF8" set a GIOChannel to UTF8, I d like to pass another 
encoding
But I don' t know the encodings and strings I can use with that call.
API don' t talk about them
setting encoding of io channel , then read, and then convert to utf 8  
should work
but first I need to know what encoding and string to pass to the 
function I can
use to set GIOChannel

Someone would have a pointer to them ?




Thanks
Axel