Re: Invalid UTF String

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:15:09PM +0530, shibu alampatta wrote:
>  I' m using a combo box, reading text from a Sqlite database table, and
> trying to add to the combo dropdown list. I'm gettting the warnig
> "Pango-Warning: Invalid UTF String passed to pango_lay_out_set_text()", and
> the text is being dispalayed in some picture like characters.
> but if i prints the characters using printf() i'm getting it properly on the
> terminal. any help pls....

Unless you use UTF-8 locale correct printing to the terminal
is no proof of UTF-8, in fact, quite the contrary.  You
probably need g_locale_to_utf8() to convert from your locale
encoding to UTF-8.

Yeti


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