man Glib.Convert () - Character Set Conversion

NAME

Glib.Convert - Character Set Conversion

Module

Module Glib.Convert

Documentation

Module Convert : sig end

Character Set Conversion

type error = | NO_CONVERSION (* Conversion between the requested character sets is not supported *) | ILLEGAL_SEQUENCE (* Invalid byte sequence in conversion input *) | FAILED (* Conversion failed for some reason *) | PARTIAL_INPUT (* Partial character sequence at end of input *) | BAD_URI (* URI is invalid *) | NOT_ABSOLUTE_PATH (* Pathname is not an absolute path *)

exception Error of error * string

val convert : string -> to_codeset:string -> from_codeset:string -> string Raises Error .

val convert_with_fallback : ?fallback:string -> to_codeset:string -> from_codeset:string -> string -> string Raises Error .

=== All internal strings are encoded in utf8: you should use the following conversion functions ===

val locale_from_utf8 : string -> string Converts the input string from UTF-8 to the encoding of the current locale. If the locale's encoding is UTF-8 , the string is simply validated and returned unmodified. Raises

Error
if the conversion fails
Error
if the string is not a valid UTF-8 string

val locale_to_utf8 : string -> string Raises Error .

=== Converts the input string from the encoding of the current locale to UTF-8. If the locale's encoding is UTF-8, the string is simply validated and returned unmodified. ===

val filename_from_utf8 : string -> string Raises Error .

val filename_to_utf8 : string -> string Raises Error .

val filename_from_uri : string -> string option * string Raises Error .

val filename_to_uri : ?hostname:string -> string -> string Raises Error .

val get_charset : unit -> bool * string Obtains the character set for the current locale. Returns the pair u,s where u is true if the character set is UTF-8 and s is the character set name