Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:26:41 +0200
To: Remi Vanicat <vanicat at labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: Problems using the new view widget
Message-ID: <20030411152641.GA2621 at iliana>
References: <20030411152228.3a45a003.maxence.guesdon at inria.fr> <20030411154505.0a899eac.maxence.guesdon at inria.fr> <20030411161409.047b3143.maxence.guesdon at inria.fr> <87of3dqcpb.dlv at wanadoo.fr>
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From: Sven Luther <luther at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:24:32PM +0200, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> 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.

BTW, would it not be better to have lablgtk2 call
Glib.Convert.locale_to_utf8 by default each time it is necessary ?

As ocaml don't use utf8 strings, but gtk+ apparently does.

Friendly,

Sven Luther