Please beware that you can get by without converting if you are really using the ASCII characters 32-127, since then UTF8 is the same as ASCII. But for other characters, e.g. iso8859-1 above 128, you have to use the converter routine before putting the text in the textviewer. Regards, Dov On 3/29/06, Meli Vázquez <ribonucleico@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry. > > Now it works. It seems I didn't need to convert the string. > > On 3/29/06, Meli Vázquez <ribonucleico@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm writing some text in a GtkTextBuffer. Text strings are ASCII encoded. > > I've tried converting my string with g_convert() but I still don't see > > any text written in the GtkTextView widget. > > > > This is more or less what I have: > > ---------- > > char string[20] = "Hello world"; > > > > textBuffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (...); > > convertedString = g_convert(... "UTF-8", "ASCII"...); > > gtk_text_buffer_set_text(...) > > ------- > > > > How can I convert an ASCII string to a UTF-8 string? What am I doing wrong? > > > > -- > > Amelio V. > > > > > -- > Amelio V. > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
