Am Sat, 17 May 2008 12:40:30 +0100 schrieb Chris Vine: > On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 11:43 +0200, Andreas Volz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I like to read Unicode strings into my gtkmm application that are > > written in UTF-16. There's only the glib::ustring class to handle > > UTF-8. Is there a UTF-16 string class or a way to convert the UTF-16 > > string to UTF-8? > > > > Then I need to write back my Unicode strings in UTF-16. I found the > > docs about "Character Set Conversion"[1], but I don't see how > > they'll help me. > > You can convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8 using g_utf16_to_utf8() (for > which purpose you will need to include glib/gunicode.h). You will > need to call g_free() on the return value after putting it in a > Glib::ustring object. > > You can go the other way with g_utf8_to_utf16(). It returns an array > of type gunichar2, which is typedef'ed to guint16, also requiring to > be g_free'd when you have finished with it.
Thanks, I'll try it. Any ideas why there's no glibmm wrapper for that? regards Andreas _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
