[Mono-devel-list] Re: [patch] support utf8 strings in c# module

[Joel Reed]

> >Afaict, SWIG cvs will only work properly across M$ .net and mono for
> >ASCII strings. 8-bit single byte encodings will not work 
> >properly because M$ interperts them as ANSI, whereas mono expects UTF8.
> >
> Is this something that Mono are aware of and what is specified in the C#
> standard? The Mono team will probably want to fix any inconsistencies
> with MS .NET.

i did ask on #mono and it was an acknowledged difference 
that _might_ be changed if someone submitted a patch which
determined the charset based on LANG environmental variable.
But assuming 8bit strings are UTF8 happens to make working with 
Gtk# nice for them - which i think they care about alot.

after thinking about the two options i actually like mono's
choice better than assuming 8-bit strings are ANSI (cp1252).

jr


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