Unicode.ucs4_ToUtf8

Convert a string from a 32-bit fixed width representation as UCS-4. to UTF-8. The result will be terminated with a 0 byte.

class Unicode
static
string
ucs4_ToUtf8

Parameters

str gunichar*

a UCS-4 encoded string

len glong

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

itemsRead glong

location to store number of characters read, or NULL.

itemsWritten glong

location to store number of bytes written or NULL. The value here stored does not include the trailing 0 byte.

Return Value

Type: string

a pointer to a newly allocated UTF-8 string. This value must be freed with g_free(). If an error occurs, NULL will be returned and error set. In that case, items_read will be set to the position of the first invalid input character.

Throws

GException on failure.

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