On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Dipak G Patil wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Linux and porting a application from windows to linux using > GTK. > As in windows there are always two versions of any API one for Ascii (e.g > CreateWindowExA) and other for unicode(el CreateWindowExW). No, it is not for ASCII but for "ANSI", that is, 8-bit encodings/charsets. That side of the windows API is actually extended to also handle some types of variable-length/multi-byte encodings/charsets, in other words it is a nuisance to use correctly in Windows. > Does the APIs of GTK library support both unicode and ASCII or I will have > to do something for that ? GTK+ uses UTF8. If you need to convert to/from UTF8 and other encodings/charsets you can use the iconv library in the Linux/*BSD world. GTK+ has some wrappers for this which you are supposed to use, so I only mention the iconv library because you might need it for other purposes in the Linux/*BSD world. Some of the GTK+ wrappers around iconv is used to convert to/from the current locale and UTF8... the current locale may very well be set to an encoding/charset that is different from UTF8. On my PC the current locale uses ISO 8859-1 (also known as ISO Latin-1 which is /almost/ identical to Windows CP-1252 if I remember correctly). If you need to know more about UTF8/unicode, please google for Markus Kuhn's Unicode FAQ (skip the sections where he turns into a standards lawyer). -Peter _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
