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Reputation: 1231

How to insert UTF8 literal in GtkTextView?

I want to insert • into GtkTextView widget. In Python + pyGTK this line was sufficient:

self.__textBuffer.insert_at_cursor(u'\u2022')

Because I'm rewriting my application to C i need to translate this line of code.

I was trying to do:

gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor(textBuffer, "\x20\x22", 2);

But it not worked, only inserted 2 chars"*.

How can I translate u'\u2022' from Python to C?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 341

Answers (2)

mattn
mattn

Reputation: 7733

How can I translate u'\u2022' from Python to C?

If you are using c++ compiler to build it, and the compiler have spec c++0x or c++11 (you can specify with g++ -std=c++0x), you can write the code like following.

gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor(textbuffer, u8"\u2022", -1);

Upvotes: 1

unwind
unwind

Reputation: 400019

You need to UTF-8 encode it, since GTK+'s encoding is UTF-8.

Thus:

const char bullet_utf8[] = "\xe2\x80\xa2";
gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor(textBuffer, bullet_utf8, strlen(bullet_utf8));

You can see the UTF-8 encoding of this character here, for instance.

Upvotes: 1

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