Hi xiangbing I'm not sure what your problem is. UTF-8 is the encoding, so you don't need to "look" for it - str(n)cmp should be sufficient to compare them (that's why it's called Unicode ;-). If you want to convert text from / to "any encoding" <--> UTF-8 you have store the previous encoding. If you need to convert text to UTF8 see Glib Docs -> GLib Utilities -> Character Set Conversion (many people just need g_locale_to_utf8). HTH Jan-Marek _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
