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| Unicode ManipulationUnicode Manipulation — functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings. | 
gchar * xfce_utf8_remove_controls (gchar *str,gssize max_len,const gchar *end);
Removes all control characters from str
 up to end
 or up to
max_len
 characters (note that characters does not mean bytes with
UTF-8), where both str
 and max_len
 may not be given.
Control characters are replaced in str
 by whitespaces, no new string
will be allocated. The operation is done in-place.
| str | target string. | |
| max_len | max characters to check or -1 for no character limit. | |
| end | pointer to the endpoint in  | 
Since 4.2