CharacterSet.localeFromUtf8

Converts a string from UTF-8 to the encoding used for strings by the C runtime (usually the same as that used by the operating system) in the [current locale]setlocale. On Windows this means the system codepage.

struct CharacterSet
static
string
localeFromUtf8
(
string utf8string
,
ptrdiff_t len
,
out size_t bytesRead
,
out size_t bytesWritten
)

Parameters

utf8string string

a UTF-8 encoded string

len ptrdiff_t

the length of the string, or -1 if the string is nul-terminated (Note that some encodings may allow nul bytes to occur inside strings. In that case, using -1 for the @len parameter is unsafe)

bytesRead size_t

location to store the number of bytes in the input string that were successfully converted, or %NULL. Even if the conversion was successful, this may be less than @len if there were partial characters at the end of the input. If the error #G_CONVERT_ERROR_ILLEGAL_SEQUENCE occurs, the value stored will the byte offset after the last valid input sequence.

bytesWritten size_t

the number of bytes stored in the output buffer (not including the terminating nul).

Return Value

Type: string

A newly-allocated buffer containing the converted string, or %NULL on an error, and error will be set.

Throws

GException on failure.

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