Add helpful comments about the encoding of a new iochannel. (Amaury

Thu Nov 21 15:52:04 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * glib/tmpl/iochannels.sgml: Add helpful comments about
        the encoding of a new iochannel. (Amaury Jacquot,
        #96444)
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Thu Nov 21 15:52:04 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* glib/tmpl/iochannels.sgml: Add helpful comments about
the encoding of a new iochannel. (Amaury Jacquot,
#96444)
2002-11-21 Matthias Clasen <maclas@gmx.de>
* glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml: Add note on including gprintf.h,

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<para>
The returned #GIOChannel has a reference count of 1.
</para>
<para>
The default encoding for #GIOChannel is UTF-8. If your application
is reading output from a command using via pipe, you may need to
set the encoding to the encoding of the current locale (see
g_get_charset()) with the g_io_channel_set_encoding() function.
</para>
<para>
If you want to read raw binary data without interpretation, then
call the g_io_charset_set_encoding() function with %NULL for the
encoding argument.
</para>
@fd: a file descriptor.
@Returns: a new #GIOChannel.