- // no need for conversion at all, but do check that we have a valid
- // UTF-8 string because passing invalid UTF-8 to GTK+ is going to
- // result in a GTK+ error message and, especially, loss of data which
- // was supposed to be shown in the GUI
- if ( wxConvUTF8.ToWChar(NULL, 0, s, s.length()) == wxCONV_FAILED )
- {
- // warn the programmer that something is probably wrong in his code
- //
- // NB: don't include the string in output because chances are that
- // this invalid UTF-8 string could result in more errors itself
- // if the application shows logs in the GUI and so we get into
- // an infinite loop
- wxLogDebug(_T("Invalid UTF-8 string in wxConvertToGTK()"));
-
- // but still try to show at least something on the screen
- wxMBConvUTF8 utf8permissive(wxMBConvUTF8::MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_OCTAL);
- wxWCharBuffer wbuf(utf8permissive.cMB2WC(s));
- buf = wxConvUTF8.cWC2MB(wbuf);
- }
- else // valid UTF-8 string, no need to convert
- {
- buf = wxCharBuffer(s);
- }