Re: libseed-list Defining a gchar in seed?

["Alan Knowles" <alan akbkhome com>]

Anaylsis of issue alfra found (As far as I understand.)

text = "a";
text = glib.ascii_toupper(text);

should not really work: the prototype for this is to accept a 'char'
'text' is a char[] type, not really a char in the C sense.
I'm not sure if Javascript should go as far as auto-type converting single char arrays to char's.
The equivilant in Javascript:
String.fromCharCode(65); // returns 'A"
String.fromCharCode('a'); // returns empty string..

So I think the current behaviour is consistent with the expected behaviour in Javascript.

Regards
Alan

 
  

 --- On 09/Feb/2010, Tim Horton wrote: 
> While Alan is right in that JavaScript should have most of what you need UTF-wise, that's no reason for us to get this wrong (those functions *should* be made to work, you weren't wrong to try to use them). I'll take a look at it when I get a chance (if I don't respond within a few days, file a bug so that I don't forget - or, you can do that anyway).
> 
> --Tim
> 
> On Feb 8, 2010, at 12:54, alsaf wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Alan. 
> > 
> > I'll definitely have a closer look at this as it looks most helpful. As
> > I mentioned, I am just having a look at the glib library and not sure if
> > these character based functions would be used in a real-life situation
> > as I had used them but it is worth knowing for curiosities sake. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> >> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:16:42 +0800
> >> From: "Alan Knowles" <alan akbkhome com>
> >> To: "alsaf" <libseed-list-bounces gnome org>
> >> Cc: libseed-list gnome org
> >> Subject: Re: libseed-list Defining a gchar in seed?
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> >> Javascript is UTF friendly - you should probably look at the native functions for this - 
> >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/String
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Alan
> >> 
> >> --- On 07/Feb/2010, alsaf wrote: 
> >>> I've found a command to convert from utf-8 to char:
> >>> 
> >>> glib.utf8_get_char("a");
> >>> 
> >>> But unable to find one that does it the other way. I see there is a
> >>> command called glib.convert but that does string but is there one for
> >>> characters?
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