Re: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input

["chen.shengqi" <chen shengqi connet com tw>]

maybe you should  
    g_io_channel_set_encoding(file_io_channel, NULL, &error);
the default encoding is utf8.

> I am trying to read some text out of a file.  It works if I do it this way:
>
>   while (read_bytes!=0) {
>     g_io_channel_read(file_io_channel, readbuffer, READBUFLENGTH, &read_bytes);
>     /* Add the text to the text in memory */
>     text=g_string_append(text, g_strndup(readbuffer,read_bytes));
>   }
>
> however, I tried doing it without the loop by calling
> g_io_channel_read_to_end(file_io_channel, &readtext, &length, &error);
>
> This, however, gives an error, specifically that 
> "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input"
>
> Given the same file, the first method always works, but the second chokes
> on certain files.  Is the second one doing some kind of extra conversion
> that the first one isn't?  If so, why?  Can I tell it not to?  I can't
> control the contents of the files being read.
>
> Thanks!
> -Ron
>
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