Sorry. Will just gtk-app-devel-list in future. Looks like GTK indeed encoded the string in Unicode, although the original string was not in Unicode.
(gdb) p song_name $2 = 0x810e300 "¸»Ê¿É½ÏÂ" (gdb) x/8 0x810e300 0x810e300: 0xbbc2b8c2 0xbfc28ac3 0xbdc289c3 0x82c38fc3 0x810e310: 0x00000000 0x00000011 0x656d614e 0x2e313300 The original string was in GB2312 (4 chinese characters that use 8 bytes). Looks like GTK+ just treated it as ASCII and converted it into Unicode (as I didn't tell GTK+ about the original encoding). I am trying to find a way to convert the string from GB2312 to UTF8 properly. thanks. On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, don't use gtk-i18n-list and don't cross post. gtk-app-devel-list is just > fine. > > Gtk works only with unicode in utf8 encoding internally, so if you want a > different format on the disk you will have to convert your text on input and > output. > > Regards, > Dov > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 19:59, Han <keepsim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wrote my first linux GUI app using GTK+, which seems to be a very >> nice tool. One question I had is: how can I set the language for >> non-unicode text in my application? I tried to use iconv(), but did >> not work out. The iconv_open call returned error ENOENT (2). Not sure >> if i am in the correct direction. >> >> thanks for any help. >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
