[glib] gconvert: add note to avoid transliteration
- From: Ryan Lortie <desrt src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [glib] gconvert: add note to avoid transliteration
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:52:49 +0000 (UTC)
commit 061793a726df038fb8c790984c81020e14feb0bb
Author: Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>
Date: Thu Feb 20 18:49:37 2014 -0500
gconvert: add note to avoid transliteration
Add a note to the documentation of g_convert() advising to avoid using
it for transliteration. Link to g_str_to_ascii().
glib/gconvert.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/glib/gconvert.c b/glib/gconvert.c
index 8831bd6..2be1cbb 100644
--- a/glib/gconvert.c
+++ b/glib/gconvert.c
@@ -526,6 +526,9 @@ g_convert_with_iconv (const gchar *str,
* character until it knows that the next character is not a mark that
* could combine with the base character.)
*
+ * Using extensions such as "//TRANSLIT" may not work (or may not work
+ * well) on many platforms. Consider using g_str_to_ascii() instead.
+ *
* Returns: If the conversion was successful, a newly allocated
* nul-terminated string, which must be freed with
* g_free(). Otherwise %NULL and @error will be set.
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