Unicode.ucs4ToUtf8

Convert a string from a 32-bit fixed width representation as UCS-4. to UTF-8. The result will be terminated with a 0 byte.

struct Unicode
static
string
ucs4ToUtf8

Parameters

str dchar*

a UCS-4 encoded string

len glong

the maximum length (number of characters) of @str to use. If @len < 0, then the string is nul-terminated.

itemsRead glong

location to store number of characters read, or %NULL.

itemsWritten glong

location to store number of bytes written or %NULL. The value here stored does not include the trailing 0 byte.

Return Value

Type: string

a pointer to a newly allocated UTF-8 string. This value must be freed with g_free(). If an error occurs, %NULL will be returned and @error set. In that case, @items_read will be set to the position of the first invalid input character.

Throws

GException on failure.

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