Loading a text file into a GtkTextView fails g_utf8_validate()

MicahCarrick · 09-12-2005, 09:02 PM

I have a little program I'm writing and it's using a GtkSourceView. When I load text files I've created on my own system, it works fine. However, when I try to load a file that was created using a windows system, I cannot load it because it fails the utf8 validation. How can I detect the type and convert it to utf8 so that it can be used in the GtkTextBuffer?

PS. I'm using C and GTK+ to write the application for Gnome.

dub.wav · 09-13-2005, 05:54 AM

gedit has some kind of character set auto detection, I suppose you could take a look at the source.

MicahCarrick · 09-20-2005, 09:58 PM

I've gotten a solution... Instead of using the Gnove VFS functions to load the file, I'm doing it with GIOChannel and forcing the UTF-8 encoding.

Thanks for the help.