Make some of the conversion functions a bit more friendly to allocation
failure.

Even though the glib policy is to abort() on allocation failure by
default, it can be quite helpful to return an allocation error for
functions already providing a GError.

I needed a safer g_utf16_to_utf8() to solve crash on big clipboard
operations with win32, related to rhbz#1017250 (and coming gdk handling
bug).

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711546