Re: Unhandled exception?

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 13:18:25 -0400
Phillip Susi <susi ubuntu com> wrote:
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> On 5/27/2014 12:59 PM, Chris Vine wrote:
> > If you want to treat input text as text, but don't know the
> > encoding, you are stuffed, so just catch the conversion exception
> > and abort, or try to deduce the codeset for yourself and abort when
> > you fail.  If you want to treat it as binary data, treat it as
> > binary data and all will be well.
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> Rather than abort, it would be preferable to ignore the bad characters
> and keep reading.  Either that or replace them with the unknown
> character.  It doesn't look like IOChannel provides a way to recover
> from this exception though, other than closing the IOChannel and
> giving up.

A couple of posts ago you were arguing it should abort (which you can
set it to do, as I mentioned).

I don't think GIOChannel is being developed any more.  The best thing
to do is to move to GIO.  GCharsetConverter (Gio::CharsetConverter) has
a 'use-fallback' property which seems to do what you want with
Gio::ConverterInputStream (although I have never tried it).

Chris