Re: Displaying a UTF-8 file in a text view

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:58:57AM +0000, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> I am trying to display a UTF-8 file in a very simple GTK+ application using a
> text view
> ...
> actualText = g_convert((const gchar *)buf, (gssize) n,
>                        "UTF-8",
>                        "ISO8859-1",
>                        &n_read,
>                        &n_written,
>                        NULL);

If the file is already in UTF-8, why you convert it from ISO
Latin1 to UTF-8?  And if it isn't in UTF-8, why you call it
`UTF-8 file'?  This does not make sense.

>  gtk_text_buffer_set_text(GTK_TEXT_BUFFER(textBuffer),
>                           actualText, n);

n is not the length of the converted text in bytes (unless
it's pure ASCII), it's the length of the text *before*
conversion.  So in addition to being possibly misconverted
the text is truncated too.

Yeti


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