RE: [java-gnome-hackers] String encoding | showAll() | ButtonBox example

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

>   I've been working on an example app for the ButtonBoxes:
> /src/examples/gtk/buttonbox/ButtonBoxes.java
> (I have implemented gtk Frame btw)
> 
> The main problem seems to be with string encodings. 
> The button box example gives the warnings:
> ** (java-gnome:14365): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to
> pango_layout_set_text()
> 
> In my code, I have been using String.getBytes() with no encoding
> argument. I guess this is wrong. I have tried a few examples and read
> through the gtk docs, but have been unable to determine what should be
> passed to the getBytes method. 
> 
> This seems to affect all classes which pass Strings to native methods.

If you get the latest from cvs and run the generator it will
produce C code that will fix this problem.  We now have the task
of merging this C code with the code in the src/jni directory.
I will do this for all of the glib, atk, pango, and gtk classes
today.  The Java will not change; you still need to pass in an
array of bytes.

-Jeff