Re: Unexpected UTF

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Tony Freeman wrote:

> Hi Gang!
>
> I'm getting an unexpected "Invalid UTF-8" thingy-ma-gumby with this
> function:
>
> void on_execute_button_clicked (GtkButton *button, gpointer user_data)
> {
>         GtkWidget *entry1  = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "entry1" );
>         GtkWidget *entry2  = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "entry2" );
>         GtkWidget *window1 = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "window1");
>         
>         if (entry1 == NULL || entry2 == NULL) {
>                 quick_message(window1, "You must provide both a PAR and RAR file.");
>         }
>
>         g_print("entry1: %s\nentry2: %s\n", entry1, entry2);
> }
>
> The above function prints out:
> [Invalid UTF-8] entry1: \x80.\x0b\x08\x02
> entry2: \x80.\x0b\x08\x02
>  
entry1 and entry2 are pointers to the entry widgets themselves, not the 
strings contained in them.  you need to use gtk_editable_get_text() for 
that.  i'd suggest you read through the gtk tutorial at gtk.org, and 
have a look at the API docs.

   -brian