Re: help with text wrapping on a GtkTreeView and displaying non US chars

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Ramsés Morales <ramses computer org> writes:

> I want to display ISO-8859-1 characters on a text cell on a GtkTreeView.
> I'm getting this error:
> 
> Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
> 
> The text gets cut where the first character with an accent should
> appear.

you _must_ use UTF-8 encoding for all strings in GTK+-2.0. If your
strings are encoded differently, use g_convert() or g_locale_to_utf8().

> I tried the g_locale_to_UTF8, but it cuts the text before it ends even
> if it is plain US characters. I tried this:
> 
> gtk_tree_store_set(model, &comment_iter, 6, comment->id, 7,
> g_locale_to_utf8(comment->comment, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL), -1);

g_locale_to_utf8() doesn't work in place. It returns the converted
string.


Salut, Sven