Re: G::O::I based bindings and problem passing char array ref

[Jeremy Volkening <jdv base2bio com>]

> I see that the data argument to "new_from_data()" is specified as a
> utf-8 char array, but the contents of the PDF files (those that use
> compressed blocks) are not actually straight UTF-8. Is it possible
> that perl-G:I:O sees the specs and is forcing UTF-8 encoding on the
> data at some point?

If I futz with the .gir and change the new_from_data() "data" parameter
type to a guint8 array (and then pass it a character array ref) I can
load and read the page number from most of the files that were
previously throwing errors. Then the script segfaults almost every
time...