Re: Reading UTF-8 encoded text file

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:44:17PM +0200, Magyari, Miklos wrote:
> hi all,
>  
> I have a file that is an UTF-8 encoded text file. I would like to read
> it line by line and place the lines in GString.
> My idea was using standard library calls (such us fgets) for file
> manipulation and reading the lines to a char* buffer, and then some glib
> API calls to place these strings into a GString (e.g I've tried
> g_string_new). Unfortunately there is something wrong as I'm unable to
> have the correct UTF-8 strings in the GStrings, it seems that the data
> is converted somewhere.
>  
> I would really appreciate any suggestions about which API calls should I
> use.

Depending where you're reading the text from you may want to have a
look at libgsf.  It has some text import facilities and is used by
most of the text based formats in gnumeric.