Re: [Vala] embedding c code snippet in vala source.

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 14:35 +0400, Alexey Lubimov wrote:
> Jürg Billeter пишет:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 13:28 +0400, Alexey Lubimov wrote:
> > > You can see 15 bugs in vala-0.3.5 sources only...
> > >     
> >
> > Most of these look correct from a quick look. The scanner and parser use
> > byte offsets in most places, not character offsets, so these parts are
> > encoding-agnostic.
> >
> >   
> may be, some of this look correct, because work with ascii strings only, 
> but not all.
>
> for example,
>
> var noquotes = value.offset (1).ndup ((uint) (value.len () - 2));
>
> value.len() return number of characters;
> ndup expected bytes;
>
>
> Anywhere, at this moment vala break 100% support for utf8 strings in 
> source code.

The parser should correctly handle UTF-8 contents, please file bugs for
concrete issues. I'll check the printf issue as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Jürg