Function

GLib-2.0 ▶ GLib ▶ filename_to_uri

  • Converts an absolute filename to an escaped ASCII-encoded URI, with the path component following Section 3.3. of RFC 2396.

    Parameters

    • filename: string

      an absolute filename specified in the GLib file name encoding, which is the on-disk file name bytes on Unix, and UTF-8 on Windows

    • Optionalhostname: string

      A UTF-8 encoded hostname, or null for none.

    Returns string

    a newly-allocated string holding the resulting URI, or null on an error.