Re: Utf8 strings manipulation

[Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>]

Perriman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>       I'm trying to transform an utf8 string. I have some problems
> with it because I don't know how to do it or where I can see an
> example (a tutorial, doc or application).
>
> I need transform this text (in utf8):
>
> gtk_source_completion
>
> to:
>
> GtkSourceCompletion.
>
> I don't know how replace a character or delete a character. Perhaps I
> need to allocate a gchar* array first and then use g_utf8_strncpy in
> all _, I don't know. In that case, I don't know how much memory I need
> to allocate.
>
> Can you help me?

Would not using the Glib regex routines[1] be the easiest?  Hacking
stuff with strncpy seems a bit problematic.  In particular you can use
g_regex_replace.  From what I've read, all the glib regular expression
routines work in UTF-8 natively.

[1]
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Perl-compatible-regular-expressions.html