[Mono-bugs] [Bug 77746][Wis] New - StringToCoTaskMemAnsi uses Latin1 rather than UTF-8 encoding

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Changed by tauberer at for.net.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77746

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+Bug#: 77746
+Product: Mono: Class Libraries
+Version: unspecified
+OS: 
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Wishlist
+Component: CORLIB
+AssignedTo: mono-bugs at ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: tauberer at for.net               
+QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: StringToCoTaskMemAnsi uses Latin1 rather than UTF-8 encoding
+
+System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemAnsi uses Latin1
+encoding rather than UTF-8.  It should wrap StringToHGlobalAnsi, which does
+the right thing, except that on Windows it should then copy the result into
+a CoTaskMem-allocated buffer.
+
+Here's a test case.  The first line prints null because the encoding can't
+be undone.  It should print a u-with-umlauts.  The second line prints 0xFC,
+which is the ANSI code for the character.  It should print something else,
+the start of a UTF-8 two-byte encoding of the character.
+
+using System;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+public class Test {
+	public static void Main() {
+		string u = ((char)0xFC).ToString();
+		Console.WriteLine(Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi(Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemAnsi(u)));
+	
+Console.WriteLine(Marshal.ReadByte(Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(u)).ToString("x"));
+	}
+}