Unicode.utf8ToUtf16

Convert a string from UTF-8 to UTF-16. A 0 character will be added to the result after the converted text.

struct Unicode
static
wchar*
utf8ToUtf16

Parameters

str string

a UTF-8 encoded string

len glong

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

itemsRead glong

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.

itemsWritten glong

location to store number of #gunichar2 written, or %NULL. The value stored here does not include the trailing 0.

Return: 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.

Throws

GException on failure.

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