Function

GLibconvert_with_fallback

Declaration [src] 

gchar*
g_convert_with_fallback (
  const gchar* str,
  gssize len,
  const gchar* to_codeset,
  const gchar* from_codeset,
  const gchar* fallback,
  gsize* bytes_read,
  gsize* bytes_written,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Converts a string from one character set to another, possibly including fallback sequences for characters not representable in the output. Note that it is not guaranteed that the specification for the fallback sequences in fallback will be honored. Some systems may do an approximate conversion from from_codeset to to_codeset in their iconv() functions, in which case GLib will simply return that approximate conversion.

Note that you should use g_iconv() for streaming conversions. Despite the fact that bytes_read can return information about partial characters, the g_convert_… functions are not generally suitable for streaming. If the underlying converter maintains internal state, then this won’t be preserved across successive calls to g_convert(), g_convert_with_iconv() or g_convert_with_fallback(). (An example of this is the GNU C converter for CP1255 which does not emit a base character until it knows that the next character is not a mark that could combine with the base character.)

Parameters

str An array of guint8
  
           the string to convert.
 The length of the array is specified in the len argument.
 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
len gssize
 

The length of the string in bytes, 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)
to_codeset const gchar*
 

Name of character set into which to convert str.
 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The string is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
from_codeset const gchar*
 

Character set of str.
 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The string is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
fallback const gchar*
 

UTF-8 string to use in place of characters not present in the target encoding. (The string must be representable in the target encoding). If NULL, characters not in the target encoding will be represented as Unicode escapes \uxxxx or \Uxxxxyyyy.
 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The string is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
bytes_read 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.
 The argument will be set by the function.
 The argument can be NULL.
 The called function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
bytes_written gsize*
 

The number of bytes stored in the output buffer (not including the terminating nul).
 The argument will be set by the function.
 The argument can be NULL.
 The called function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
error GError **
  The return location for a GError*, or NULL.

Return value

Returns: An array of guint8
  
     If the conversion was successful, a newly allocated buffer
     containing the converted string, which must be freed with `g_free()`.
     Otherwise `NULL` and `error` will be set.
 The length of the array is in the bytes_written argument.
 The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.