Han wrote: > Sorry. Will just gtk-app-devel-list in future. > > Looks like GTK indeed encoded the string in Unicode, although the > original string was not in Unicode. > > (gdb) p song_name > $2 = 0x810e300 "¸»Ê¿É½ÏÂ" > > (gdb) x/8 0x810e300 > 0x810e300: 0xbbc2b8c2 0xbfc28ac3 0xbdc289c3 0x82c38fc3 > 0x810e310: 0x00000000 0x00000011 0x656d614e 0x2e313300 > > The original string was in GB2312 (4 chinese characters that use 8 > bytes). Looks like GTK+ just treated it as ASCII and converted it > into Unicode (as I didn't tell GTK+ about the original encoding).
GTK+ expects everything you pass to be UTF-8, so it tried to interpret it as UTF-8. And there's no way to change that. > I > am trying to find a way to convert the string from GB2312 to UTF8 > properly. > ... which means that, indeed, you must convert your string to UTF-8. g_convert can help you: http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#g-convert -- It's reassuring to know that if you behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for you. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
