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. Ed _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
