CharacterSet.convert

Converts a string from one character set to another. Note that you should use g_iconv() for streaming conversions[2].

class CharacterSet

static

string

convert

(

string str

)

Parameters

str string: the string to convert
len gssize: the length of the string, or -1 if the string is nul-terminated[1].
toCodeset string: name of character set into which to convert str
fromCodeset string: character set of str.
bytesRead gsize: 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 gsize: the number of bytes stored in the output buffer (not including the terminating nul).

If the conversion was successful, a newly allocated nul-terminated string, which must be freed with g_free(). Otherwise NULL and error will be set.

GException on failure.