Function

GLiblocale_from_utf8

Declaration 

gchar*
g_locale_from_utf8 (
  const gchar* utf8string,
  gssize len,
  gsize* bytes_read,
  gsize* bytes_written,
  GError** error
)

Description

Converts a string from UTF-8 to the encoding used for strings by the C runtime (usually the same as that used by the operating system) in the [current locale][setlocale]. On Windows this means the system codepage.

The input string shall not contain nul characters even if the len argument is positive. A nul character found inside the string will result in error G_CONVERT_ERROR_ILLEGAL_SEQUENCE. Use g_convert() to convert input that may contain embedded nul characters.

Parameters

utf8string

Type: const gchar*

A UTF-8 encoded string.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
len

Type: gssize

The length of the string, or -1 if the string is nul-terminated.

bytes_read

Type: 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 be the byte offset after the last valid input sequence.

The argument will be set by the function.
The argument can be NULL.
bytes_written

Type: 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.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the function if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: An array of guint8

     A newly-allocated buffer containing the converted string,
     or `NULL` on an error, 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.