Re: libseed-list Defining a gchar in seed?

[Tim Horton <tim hortont com>]

On Feb 8, 2010, at 18:38, Alan Knowles wrote:

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.

In my school-inspired haste I misread the issue. You're right, it shouldn't work.

Unless, as you say, we were to convert single character arrays to gchar... which, you're right again,

is probably not something we want to do. Though this does potentially leave us with some C functions

which are simply completely inaccessible... (not these, which have JS equivalents, but others...)

But yeah, scratch what I said about the bug report.

Sorry...

--Tim

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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