To: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: Problems using the new view widget
From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat at labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:24:32 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20030411161409.047b3143.maxence.guesdon at inria.fr> (Maxence
 Guesdon's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:14:09 +0200")
Message-ID: <87of3dqcpb.dlv at wanadoo.fr>
References: <20030411152228.3a45a003.maxence.guesdon at inria.fr>
	<20030411154505.0a899eac.maxence.guesdon@inria.fr>
	<20030411161409.047b3143.maxence.guesdon@inria.fr>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: Vanicat Remi <moi at wanadoo.fr>

Maxence Guesdon <maxence.guesdon at inria.fr> writes:

>> > Am I missing something ?
>> > In the example/text/text-demo.ml, my 'é' gives the same error when I add it
>> > to a string inserted in the buffer.
>> > 
>> > How can I display this kind of character ? It worked before :-(
>> 
>> Ok, Thanks to Olivier Andrieu I read the README file :-)
>
> I tried to to as the README says, and used the function
> Glib.Convert.locale_to_utf8 "ma lettre accentuée é"
>
> now I have another exception:
> exception Glib.GError("Invalid byte sequence in conversion input")
>
> I had to change my LC_ALL to fr_FR to make it work.
> Hope it will help someone in the future.

well, you could have use
Glib.Convert.convert "ma lettre accentuée é" ~to_codeset: "utf-8"
                     ~from_codeset: "ISO-8859-1"

but in that case, you don't look to locale...

by the way, it best to leave LC_ALL untouched and to use LANG.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat