Hi all, >From my program (winefish), some child processes are called and theirs output will be captured. The IO_channel was used for this purpose. The problem is that some children may procedure invalid UTF8 strings (for example, when LANG=fr_FR and `cat' returns 1 (file not found)). This causes empty output in gtk_tree_view!! ( I tried to use NULL encoding (for IO_channel) but failed ) Question: how to handle invalid UTF8 string? Thank you for replies. Regards, kyanh PS: this topic is related to BUG#82 (see BUGS) of Winefish, http://winefish.berlios.de/ _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list