Method

VteTerminalset_encoding

Declaration [src]

gboolean
vte_terminal_set_encoding (
  VteTerminal* terminal,
  const char* codeset,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Changes the encoding the terminal will expect data from the child to be encoded with. For certain terminal types, applications executing in the terminal can change the encoding. If codeset is NULL, it uses “UTF-8”.

Note: Support for non-UTF-8 is deprecated and may get removed altogether. Instead of this function, you should use a wrapper like luit(1) when spawning the child process.

Deprecated since:0.54

Support for non-UTF-8 is deprecated.

Sets propertyVte.Terminal:encoding

Parameters

codeset const char*
 

Target charset, or NULL to use UTF-8

 The argument can be NULL.
 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
error GError **
  The return location for a GError*, or NULL.

Return value

Returns: gboolean
 

TRUE if the encoding could be changed to the specified one, or FALSE with error set to G_CONVERT_ERROR_NO_CONVERSION.