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

[Kumar Appaiah <akumar iitm ac in>]

David Nečas writes:
> So if we leave out all the redundant things (and add at
> least basic sanity checks), this will remain:
> 
>     GtkTextBuffer *textbuffer;
>     gchar *buf;
>     const gchar *errpos;
>     GError *err = NULL;
>     gsize n;
> 
>     if (g_file_get_contents(filename, &buf, &n, &err)) {
>         if (g_utf8_validate(buf, n, &errpos)) {
>             textbuffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(textarea));
>             gtk_text_buffer_set_text(textbuffer, buf, n);
>         }
>         else
>             g_printerr("Invalid byte at position %d\n", (gint)(errpos - buf));
>         g_free(buf);
>     }
>     else {
>         g_printerr("Cannot read %s: %s\n", filename, err->message);
>         g_clear_error(&err);
>     }
> 
> This works, and if it doesn't it will tell you what's wrong.

Thanks for bearing with me, but I just discovered that the documents aren't
UTF-8,  but actually ISO-10646-UCS-2 (opening from Kedit). Now, I am again
struggling to get that to show up.

Thanks.

Kumar