Re: Pango warning: "Invalid UTF-8 string"

[Roger Leigh <rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org>]

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Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com> writes:

> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Are you *sure* the string is UTF-8 and that the umlaut is not an
>> 8-bit Latin (ISO-8859-n) character?
>
> It's an ordinary std::string. I also tried to 
> convert it to a Glib::ustring but that didn't help.
>
>> Where is the umlaut coming from?
>
> It's a filename, an std::string returned by 
> Gnome::Vfs::FileInfo::get_name().

You want the glibmm equivalent of g_filename_to_utf8.

You might also want to consider using a UTF-8 locale (de_DE.UTF-8) and
UTF-8 filenames on disc.


Regards,
Roger

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