Re: How to read and how to write to a gtktext (changed behaviour)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Javier Ros Ganuza <jros unavarra es> writes:
> I suppouse that is a UTF issue but I dont know how to deal with it.
>
> In redhat 6.2 the gtktext widget worked perfectly when feeded directly
> with plain 7bit ascii files (writing the gtktext buffer content directly
> and reading it again worked ok also),
> but with redhat 7.0 this does not hapen no longer:
>
> - When feeding directly the gtktext with a plain 7bit asscii file (no
> filtering),
> gtktext shows garbage.
>
> It must be a utf16 encoding isue thougt aproximatelly  2 meaningfull
> characters are converted
> to a 1 garbage charater.
>
> Supposing I'm right, the question is the following.
>
> Which is the function I've have to use to filter an ascii stream
> in order to feed the gtktext buffer?. (i.e. ascii  to UTF16),
> and wich is the converse funtion of the previous one?

GtkText didn't change between RH 6.2 and RH 7; in both cases it
expects the current locale's default encoding. In GTK 1.3.x (the
unstable/devel version) it expects UTF-8.

Havoc