Re: how to set language for non-unicode text

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo kalinowski com br>]

Han wrote:
> Sorry. Will just gtk-app-devel-list in future.
>
> Looks like GTK indeed encoded the string in Unicode, although the
> original string was not in Unicode.
>
> (gdb) p song_name
> $2 = 0x810e300 "¸»Ê¿É½ÏÂ"
>
> (gdb) x/8 0x810e300
> 0x810e300:    0xbbc2b8c2      0xbfc28ac3      0xbdc289c3      0x82c38fc3
> 0x810e310:    0x00000000      0x00000011      0x656d614e      0x2e313300
>
> The original string was in GB2312 (4 chinese characters that use 8
> bytes).  Looks like GTK+ just treated it as ASCII and converted it
> into Unicode (as I didn't tell GTK+ about the original encoding).

GTK+ expects everything you pass to be UTF-8, so it tried to interpret
it as UTF-8. And there's no way to change that.

>   I
> am trying to find a way to convert the string from GB2312 to UTF8
> properly.
>   

... which means that, indeed, you must convert your string to UTF-8.
g_convert can help you:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#g-convert

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo kalinowski com br