Re: Hi,sorry to disturb u,but i need your help?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

sandy_21 <sandy_21 sina com> writes:

> The problem is quite similar to yours  posted on gtk-i18n maillist,
> about CJK in basic-ft2:)
> Mine is:
>    some  gb2312-encoded string could not be show in gtkwidget such as
> button,lable,clist
> it report error with  "Invalid UTF8 string passed to
> pango_layout_set_text()" ,
> as far as i know gtk use pango to implement text output,in internal i
> use unicode encoding
> 
> The relevant versions
> glib 2.0
> atk1.0
> pango1.0
> gtk+2.0
> redhat 7.2
> 
> so is it necessary to convert gb2312 string to utf8 string?

Yes.

>any api can do this?

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-character-set-conversion.html

Probably either g_locale_to_utf8() or g_convert() is what you are looking
for. There are also functions for converting between various representations
of Unicode in:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-unicode-manipulation.html

Regards,
                                        Owen