At 12:35 PM 12/1/2006, Edward Catmur wrote: >On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:46 -0800, Daniel Yek wrote: > > Well, with g_utf8_validate(), it is trivial to implement a function that > > escape non-UTF-8 bytes to Hex. However, I then found out that TreeView, or > > more likely Pango, would unescape the %xx sequence (undo my attempt to > help > > it) and choke!??! > >Use another escape-representation character? > > > More random thoughts: > > Is there a way to ask Pango to render illegal UTF-8 bytes as the more > > pleasant rectangle with hex number in it (as in the case when the font is > > not installed), rather than printing out cryptic messages on the terminal? > >No; the rectangle-with-hex isn't Pango's devising, it's an actual font >(most likely DejaVu Sans) which contains that glyph as a fallback. >Because illegal UTF-8 non-sequences don't correspond to a codepoint, >there is no character to display and so no glyph to fall back to.
Thanks! That was informative. -- Daniel Yek >Ed _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
