Question

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?

Answer 1

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.