Re: [[gtkmm] Problem with std::string -> Glib::ustring conversion]

[joey yandle <joey divisionbyzero com>]

> 
> 1) Is it possible to simply specify that a string must be converted from
> e.g. ISO 8859-1, including the characters with values > 127, into UTF-8? I
> thought that this was what locale_to_utf8 would do, but if so I'm doing
> something wrong, as my program crashed when I called it on strings
> containing characters with values > 127.
> 

Yes... here's a code snippet:

        std::string charset = "ISO-8859-1";  
        std::string data = read_from_file();
        Glib::ustring ret;
        try {
            ret = Glib::convert(data, "UTF-8", charset);
        } catch(Glib::Exception& e) {
            ret = data;
            Glib::ustring::iterator i;
            while(!ret.validate(i)) { 
                ret.replace(i++, i, "*");
            }
        }

cheers,
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