Re: [gtk2-perl-xs] Gnome2::About

[Christian Borup <borup borup com>]

On tor, 2003-04-24 at 17:17, muppet wrote:
> gtk2-perl-xs currently does not do anything special to unicode strings,
> because i am a country bumpkin in the 'states and have no experience with or
> use for unicode, nor any way to type it.
> 
> the code still uses gchar all over the place, so i was planning to make it
> just a new typemap for gchar which does the appropriate utf8 conversions, but
> like i said, i don't know what those are.

I already made those typemaps... They are in the non-xs version. And
attached here.

> it will be relatively easy --- in gperl.h declare and in GType.xs define
> functions newSVgchar and SvGChar which convert between SV and gchar*
> appropriately; then create in gperl's typemap a new entry to use those instead
> of simply mapping gchar* to T_PV as it currently does.
> 
> a complication is the fact that in many places we handle gchars without the
> typemap.  these need to be replaced with newSVgchar / SvGChar instead of
> newSVpv / SvPV_nolen.

If noone beats me to it, I won't mind doing it. However it won't be for
the next week at least (deadlines at work). As muppet said it not hard,
but quite time consuming.

./borup

TYPEMAP
gchar *	T_GCHAR

INPUT
T_GCHAR
	sv_utf8_upgrade($arg);
	$var = ($type)SvPV_nolen($arg)

OUTPUT 
T_GCHAR
	sv_setpv((SV*)$arg, $var);
	SvUTF8_on($arg);