Unicode.utf8Substring

Copies a substring out of a UTF-8 encoded string. The substring will contain @end_pos - @start_pos characters.

Since GLib 2.72, -1 can be passed to @end_pos to indicate the end of the string.

struct Unicode
static
string
utf8Substring

Parameters

str string

a UTF-8 encoded string

startPos glong

a character offset within @str

endPos glong

another character offset within @str, or -1 to indicate the end of the string

Return Value

Type: string

a newly allocated copy of the requested substring. Free with g_free() when no longer needed.

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Since

2.30