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().
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Ryan Lortie 2014-02-20 18:49:37 -05:00
parent 0415930b49
commit 061793a726

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@ -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.