Unicode.utf16ToUcs4

Convert a string from UTF-16 to UCS-4. The result will be nul-terminated.

struct Unicode

static

dchar*

utf16ToUcs4

(

wchar* str

,

glong len

,

out glong itemsRead

,

out glong itemsWritten

)

Parameters

str wchar*: a UTF-16 encoded string
len glong: the maximum length (number of gunichar2) of str to use. If len < 0, then the string is nul-terminated.
itemsRead glong: location to store number of words read, or NULL. If NULL, then G_CONVERT_ERROR_PARTIAL_INPUT will be returned in case str contains a trailing partial character. If an error occurs then the index of the invalid input is stored here.
itemsWritten glong: location to store number of characters written, or NULL. The value stored here does not include the trailing 0 character.

Return Value

Type: dchar*

a pointer to a newly allocated UCS-4 string. This value must be freed with g_free(). If an error occurs, NULL will be returned and error set.

Throws

GException on failure.

glib Unicode Unicode static functions