Re: Gnome VFS and GtkTextBuffer, character encodings?

[Micah Carrick <email micahcarrick com>]

PS.  Please ignore the line that reads:

text_buffer = g_strconcat("", NULL);

My bad :)

- Micah

Micah Carrick wrote:

> I'm still wet behind the ears hear so bare with me.  I'm trying to 
> load a text file into a GtkTextBuffer.  When doing so with local text 
> files, no problem.  However, when I open a file that I created on my 
> Windows system, the program crashes due to utf8 validation.  So used 
> g_utf8_validate() to catch this.  However, I need to be able to read 
> this type of file (it's a text file containing assembly code).  I'm 
> using something like the following to read the file (using gnome-vfs):
>  
> do {
>
>    result = gnome_vfs_read (handle,
>            text_buffer,
>
>            BUFFER_SIZE,
>            &bytes_read);
>
>   
>    bytes_total += bytes_read;
>
> } while(result == GNOME_VFS_OK);
>
> if(result == GNOME_VFS_ERROR_EOF) {
>
>    text_buffer = g_strconcat("", NULL);
>
>   
> }
>
>
> Is there some easy way to determine the character coding of the file 
> I'm opening and make a conversion before trying to put it into a 
> GtkTextBuffer?
>
> - Micah
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