hi frnds..
how to convert ascii character string to utf-8 format. does c library in linux give any function for this conversion?
Thxs in advance.
Shibu.
hi frnds..
how to convert ascii character string to utf-8 format. does c library in linux give any function for this conversion?
Thxs in advance.
Shibu.
All ASCII encoded characters are UTF-8 encoded characters.
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Not the C Standard librairy because UTF-8 is not part of the C librairy. C only provides a special type for dealing with 16 bit chars. Those wide characters do not actually have to be Unicode however.
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IF your string is actually ASCII (that is, no values above 127) then it's already UTF-8 as Salem said.
If your string contains characters 128-255, it's not an ASCII string, and then you need to know which character set (Latin1, Shift-JIS, etc.) that the source string is in. I am not sure if there are any linux-specific functions for doing code page conversion, but it wouldn't be too hard to code a lookup table if your input character set was always the same.
Last edited by Cat; 09-04-2006 at 02:45 PM.
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I have a plain string passed to a gtk function. string is "acdrrt". Now as responded this should be in UTF-8 but gtk function is reporting to me it is not in UTF-8.
Could you post the code? Is there a 'L' following the string to indicate that the string is unicode? What happens if you pass the string constant directly? I bet it's how you store the string.
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my code is given below
strcpy(a,"AAA");
glist=glist_append(glist,a);
but if I give
glist=glist_append(glist,"AAA")
it works fine.
Right, so how is a defined?
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a is defined as
char a[15];
strcpy(a,"AAA");
glist=glist_append(glist,a);
here it reports invalid UTF-8 string passed to function
Last edited by shibu; 09-07-2006 at 12:42 AM.
Odd . . . are you having the same problem? What language do you speak? Do you think that you're in a different locale?
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