Re: [Vala] Is it possible to do a reading buffer offset in vala?

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 19:04 +0100, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote:
> JM píše v Út 09. 02. 2010 v 18:52 +0100:
> > Hello Jiří
> > Thanks! It works fine with pointers. just like in C. I just there was a
> > possibility to avoid them in vala because I have to manage them
> > manually.
> > But it's also fine this way. 
>
> The only "manual" thing you are doing is moving the pointer. I don't see
> any way this could possibly be done automatically. :)
>
> > Another question:
> > Is there some trick to cast the read data back to utf-8? Otherwise the
> > content of the file is unreadable in some parts (For example if I write
> > your name to the file :) )?
> > Regards
> > Jörn
>
> It should be possible to simply cast the array to a string.
> Or I don't understand the problem.

I think the problem is that you shouldn't read/write utf-8 strings at
arbitrary positions in the buffer. You may cut a multibyte char, which
will break the rest of the string.

        Xav