CharacterSet.localeToUtf8

Converts a string which is in the encoding used for strings by the C runtime (usually the same as that used by the operating system) in the [current locale]setlocale into a UTF-8 string.

If the source encoding is not UTF-8 and the conversion output contains a nul character, the error %G_CONVERT_ERROR_EMBEDDED_NUL is set and the function returns %NULL. If the source encoding is UTF-8, an embedded nul character is treated with the %G_CONVERT_ERROR_ILLEGAL_SEQUENCE error for backward compatibility with earlier versions of this library. Use g_convert() to produce output that may contain embedded nul characters.

struct CharacterSet
static
string
localeToUtf8
(,
out size_t bytesRead
,
out size_t bytesWritten
)

Parameters

opsysstring string

a string in the encoding of the current locale. On Windows this means the system codepage.

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 be 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

The converted string, or %NULL on an error.

Throws

GException on failure.

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