Re: Why std::string is used for the file paths?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Roman Yazmin wrote:
> If library has own "string" class, and it is used,  it should be used 
> everywhere.
Gtkmm doesn't have its own "string" class. It has a special class for 
UTF-8 encoded strings. That's what Glib::ustring is.
> No matter what happens internally. Library interface should be common.
> Why we need this "string hell"?
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Milosz Derezynski 
> <internalerror gmail com <mailto:internalerror gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     Filesystems aren't in any particular encoding; there is no such
>     thing as a "string class for file paths". On UNIX a file path is
>     just a sequence of 8-bit characters, for which std::string is
>     suited best, and for which Glib::ustring isn't needed. If any of
>     the mentioned functions would take an Glib::ustring, the ustring
>     would need to be passed to the relevant internal function using
>     ::raw() anyway which would make any UTF-8ness it might or might
>     not have there unneccessary.
>
>     2008/7/13 Roman Yazmin <roman yazmin gmail com
>     <mailto:roman yazmin gmail com>>:
>
>         Why std::string is used for the file paths?
>
>         Most of Miscellaneous Utility Functions
>         (http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/group__MiscUtils.html),
>         Gio::File, Gtk::Image::set, Gdk::Pixbuf::create_from_file and
>         so on.
>         Why not just use Glib:ustring everywhere?
>
>         For example, this simple code will cause a crash:
>         Gtk::Image image;
>         Glib::ustring path("image.png");
>         image.set(path);
>
>         Why I should write image.set(path.raw()); to prevent this crash?
>
>         Thanks.
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