Re: [Vala] byte array <-> string

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

Actually, now that I think of it, there is one more problem.

There is a convert () method, that converts from one charset to
another. The problem is that its input and output are both of string
type, which should always be UTF-8 in Vala.

So I think it would be better to have something like:

uchar[] string_to_array (string input, string output_charset = "utf-8");
string   array_to_string (uchar[] input, string input_charset = "utf-8");

which would solve both problems in one go.

Dne 15. červen 2009 17:22 Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com> napsal(a):
> Hello. It seems to me that there is no easy way to convert these two
> to each other. I'd suggest adding one method and one constructor or
> static method to the string class. "uint8[] to_byte_array ()" and
> "String.from_byte_array (uint8[] array, size_t start = 0, size_t len =
> -1)". Is it possible?