Method

GLibIOChannelget_encoding

Declaration

const gchar*
g_io_channel_get_encoding (
  GIOChannel* channel
)

Description

Gets the encoding for the input/output of the channel. The internal encoding is always UTF-8. The encoding NULL makes the channel safe for binary data.

Return value

Type: const gchar*

A string containing the encoding, this string is owned by GLib and must not be freed.

The data is owned by the instance.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.