Re: displaying a multilanguage file

[john vivian <viv veeev com>]

        Sorry for the repost.  Hoping that someone can still help me.
        Again, i am trying to load a file with several multibyte
        characters into a textbuffer, and failing miserably.  Any help
        would be most appreciated.

        Thanks,

        john    

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 19:26, john vivian wrote:
> 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.