Function

GLibucs4_to_utf16

Declaration 

gunichar2*
g_ucs4_to_utf16 (
  const gunichar* str,
  glong len,
  glong* items_read,
  glong* items_written,
  GError** error
)

Description

Convert a string from UCS-4 to UTF-16. A 0 character will be added to the result after the converted text.

Parameters

str

Type: An array of gunichar

A UCS-4 encoded string.

The length of the array is specified in the len argument.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
len

Type: glong

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

items_read

Type: glong*

Location to store number of bytes read, or NULL. If an error occurs then the index of the invalid input is stored here.

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

Type: glong*

Location to store number of #gunichar2 written, or NULL. The value stored here does not include the trailing 0.

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 be 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: gunichar2*

A pointer to a newly allocated UTF-16 string. This value must be freed with g_free(). If an error occurs, NULL will be returned and error set.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.