locale_to_utf8

Description:

public string locale_to_utf8 (ssize_t len, out size_t bytes_read, out size_t bytes_written, out Error error = null)

Converts a string which is in the encoding used for strings by the C runtime (usually the same as that used by the operating system) in the current locale into a UTF-8 string.

Parameters:

len	the length of the string, or -1 if the string is nul-terminated (Note that some encodings may allow nul bytes to occur inside strings. In that case, using -1 for the `len` parameter is unsafe)
bytes_read	location to store the number of bytes in the input string that were successfully converted, or null. Even if the conversion was successful, this may be less than `len` if there were partial characters at the end of the input. If the error ILLEGAL_SEQUENCE occurs, the value stored will the byte offset after the last valid input sequence.
bytes_written	the number of bytes stored in the output buffer (not including the terminating nul).
opsysstring	a string in the encoding of the current locale. On Windows this means the system codepage.

Returns:

A newly-allocated buffer containing the converted string, or null on an error, and error will be set.