Re: g_utf8_validate() and NUL characters

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
>>> Another possibility mentioned was making more use of GString.
>> Not a huge fan.
> 
> Why's that? GString is a very odd animal, we have it, it works fine and 
> is as good a string implementation and as compatible with char* as 
> possible within C, yet it seems to be used exactly nowhere. What's the 
> reason not to use GStrings if they do just what's needed? Or why do we 
> have them if no-one wants to use them?

GString is a string-builder.  It can't represent readonly strings.

behdad

> Cheers,
> Maciej