Re: The big UTF8 changeover...

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Christian Borup <borup borup com> writes:

> > > Anyway, my point was really just that if every bit of code does this
> > > kind of thing itself. The codebase gets hard to manage.
> >
> > No, we just need a couple of helper functions for those cases.
>
> Same difference. Both keeps the code in one place.
> Now that I figured out how typemaps work I tend to favor those. Because
> they save me from having to do things by hand.

I didn't understand at first place that you suggested to use
typemaps to convert between undef and NULL for gchar*.

I find this idea very nice, if you may suggest a patch for that
I'd be in favor of using that, of course!
 
> Also one typemap can handle mapping to and from many types, its not
> nesesary to generate a typemap for every type.

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/