Re: UTF8

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Christian Borup <borup borup com> writes:

> > Warning, newSVgchar is a wrapper to convert a newly-allocated
> > gchar* into a perl object, to not leak memory when calling gtk
> > functions that do allocate a gchar* when called. If you look at
> > the prototype of gtk_entry_get_text, it isn't the case, so if you
> > use newSVgchar is will corrupt memory and possibly segfault on
> > you.
>
> I noticed that, it segfaults allright :-)

The function name "newSVgchar" is not very well chosen, but I
didn't find a better one (to signify that it frees up the
gchar*), so if anyone has a suggestion..?

> Which is why the newSVgchar is not used for gtk_entry_get_text in my
> patch. I'm thinking of adding a typemap to handle gchar, and have that
> call SvUTF8_on on the SV's (obviously I'd have to change all char* to
> gchar*).


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