Re: glib utf8 api

[Gregory Sharp <gregsharp geo yahoo com>]

> > 2) There seems to be no way to create a "best guess" valid
> > string.  g_utf8_validate is nice and all, but if validation 
> > fails I still need to create a valid string.  Am I supposed 
> > to use g_convert_with_fallback() from UTF-8 to UTF-8?
> 
> Very good point.  I raised this here too:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391261#c9
> 
> In Pango these days I loop over the string, calling
> g_utf8_validate()
> and replacing any invalid bytes with -1.  The -1 byte is known
> to be
> safe when passed to various glib UTF-8 functions.

As I dig deeper, it seems I also need this 
for non-utf8 strings.  For example, my input string is 
nominally SJIS, but contains a corrupt character in 
the middle.  g_convert stops at the corruption 
point.  I would like instead to recover the string 
(using substitution or deletion of corrupt characters) 
as I convert to utf8.

Maybe this is too much to ask, but I ask anyway.  :)

Thanks,
Greg


Greg Sharp
gregsharp geocities com


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