a UTF-8 encoded string
location to store number of bytes read, or NULL. If NULL, then G_CONVERT_ERROR_PARTIAL_INPUT will be returned in case str contains a trailing partial character. If an error occurs then the index of the invalid input is stored here. [allow-none]
a pointer to a newly allocated UTF-16 string. This value must be freed with g_free(). If an error occurs, NULL will be returned and error set.
GException on failure.
Convert a string from UTF-8 to UTF-16. A 0 character will be added to the result after the converted text.