Hi everybody, I don't have experience about charset issues so I tried the following to experiment: (it's in C++ using glibmm and giomm but I guess the problem is not related to that, it's just I don't understand something.)
************************************* #include <giomm.h> #include <iostream> #include <glibmm.h> #include <string> int main(int argc, char** argv) { Glib::init(); Gio::init(); if(argc!=2) return 1; //open a file to read Glib::RefPtr<Gio::File> file=Gio::File::create_for_path(argv[1]); Glib::RefPtr<Gio::DataInputStream> fin=Gio::DataInputStream::create(file->read()); std::string line; //try to read. try{ int i=1; while(fin->read_line(line)){ std::cout<<i<<": as-is: \""<<line<<"\""<<std::endl; std::cout<<i<<": through Glib::ustring: \""<<Glib::ustring(line)<<"\""<<std::endl; ++i; } } catch(Glib::ConvertError error){ std::cout<<std::endl<<"Glib::ConvertError: "<<error.what()<<std::endl; } return 0; } ******************************************************************* Feading this utf-8 encoded file to the above program: ******************************************************************* First line: plain text. deuxième ligne: des accents ici et là... ******************************************************************* results in: 1: as-is: "First line: plain text." 1: through Glib::ustring: "First line: plain text." 2: as-is: "deuxième ligne: des accents ici et là..." 2: through Glib::ustring: " Glib::ConvertError: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input my locale is using utf-8 (fr_CH). The question is: How to import the file content in an Glib::ustring when already knowing its encoding (not necessarily utf-8 though)? I'm writing an application which will likely have to deal with asian characters so I need to find out! Thanks a lot! Bastien _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list