Re: Save files with correct character set

[Spazzatura.Live <kharhonte hotmail com>]

It doesn't work:
    Saving file failed: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input

Using: Glib::file_set_contents(filename, 
Glib::locale_from_utf8(TextView.get_buffer()->get_text()));

Il 22/03/2012 21:58, Spazzatura.Live ha scritto:
> > ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) is not ASCII. It uses the 8th bit for non-ASCII 
> > characters. Latin-1 and UTF-8 are ASCII compatible if you stick to 
> > the ASCII character set.
> I read it after sending the email on Wikipedia...
>
> > If you are saving data to file, it is much better to save it in 
> > unicode format as UTF-8, and if you need to convert it, convert it 
> > when reading. However, if you really think you need to convert to 
> > Latin-1, use Glib::convert(). But what drew you to Latin-1? If that 
> > is your locale encoding, it won't necessarily be other people's 
> > locale encoding, and for that reason saving data to file in the 
> > locale encoding is generally a bad idea, as it is non-portable. 
> > However, if that is not an issue, you could use 
> > Glib::locale_from_utf8(). Chris 
>
> I can't, I read it with a Thunderbird extension (not written by me) 
> and I don't know Java very well and should change it on every 
> update... (I told the developer about that, but he didn't seem to 
> understand at all...)
> When I import this files after opening with Gedit and saving it with 
> character set ISO-8859-15 it works...
> However, my strings, may contain the Euro's symbol (€) so the 
> ISO-8859-15 should be the right one for saving it correctly, right? 
> (I'm not very experienced about character encoding (as you saw), 
> probably the characters are kind of written just in ISO-8859 and 
> -1/-15 depends on the reader's interpreter)
>
> However, now i just try Glib::locale_from_utf8() and let you know.
>
> Thanks.
> Stefano