+/* This is cut out of gconvert.c from glib (and mildly modified). Not all
+ backends give valid UTF-8 for properties, so we make sure that is.
+ */
+static gchar *
+make_valid_utf8 (const gchar *name)
+{
+ GString *string;
+ const gchar *remainder, *invalid;
+ gint remaining_bytes, valid_bytes;
+
+ string = NULL;
+ remainder = name;
+ remaining_bytes = strlen (name);
+
+ while (remaining_bytes != 0)
+ {
+ if (g_utf8_validate (remainder, remaining_bytes, &invalid))
+ break;
+ valid_bytes = invalid - remainder;
+
+ if (string == NULL)
+ string = g_string_sized_new (remaining_bytes);
+
+ g_string_append_len (string, remainder, valid_bytes);
+ g_string_append_c (string, '?');
+
+ remaining_bytes -= valid_bytes + 1;
+ remainder = invalid + 1;
+ }
+
+ if (string == NULL)
+ return g_strdup (name);
+
+ g_string_append (string, remainder);
+
+ g_assert (g_utf8_validate (string->str, -1, NULL));
+
+ return g_string_free (string, FALSE);
+}
+