Re: g_malloc overhead

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 22:30 +0100, Martin (OPENGeoMap) wrote:
> hi:
> > >     
> >
> > Well - what do you mean? Having 2 functions - one reciving utf-16 and
> > one utf-8? To be honest - it doesn't make any sense to me (it would
> > create much mess, double the code, make programming errors easier...).
> >
> > Converting? What's wrong with g_utf16_to_utf8?
> >   
> I was talking about a full utf16 and utf8 api in glib and use a macro to 
> work work intermediate string:
>
> For example in windows they have this types:
> LPSTR =char *

char * is used for utf-8 AFAIR

> LPWSTR= utf16windowschar *

gunichar2

> perhaps in glib we could have utf16 and utf8 in that way or am i wrong?

I'm not glib developer. As far as the module of operating on utf-16
strings is proposed I'm not against. However I would prefere to not have
2 entries to each function.

Regards

> Regards.