From 061793a726df038fb8c790984c81020e14feb0bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Lortie Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:49:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gconvert: add note to avoid transliteration Add a note to the documentation of g_convert() advising to avoid using it for transliteration. Link to g_str_to_ascii(). --- glib/gconvert.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/glib/gconvert.c b/glib/gconvert.c index 8831bd6..2be1cbb 100644 --- a/glib/gconvert.c +++ b/glib/gconvert.c @@ -526,6 +526,9 @@ g_convert_with_iconv (const gchar *str, * character until it knows that the next character is not a mark that * could combine with the base character.) * + * Using extensions such as "//TRANSLIT" may not work (or may not work + * well) on many platforms. Consider using g_str_to_ascii() instead. + * * Returns: If the conversion was successful, a newly allocated * nul-terminated string, which must be freed with * g_free(). Otherwise %NULL and @error will be set. -- 2.7.4