[Mono-list] Passing UTF-8 to a method that takes a .Net string - not possible right?

[nev]

Hi all,

I don't see a Mono.Cairo forum, so hopefully this is the right place to
post.

As I understand it .Net strings are UTF-16, and converting them to UTF-8
renders a byte array, and to get them back to strings they have to be
converted back to UTF-16. If I'm wrong stop me here.

So I've been using Mono.Cairo.Context.ShowText() which takes a string. On
Linux everything is good, never had a problem.

But running my assemblies on Windows with the Mono assemblies from the
Windows Mono installer everything works - except that ShowText() has issues
with accents and guillemets (and maybe other things). (Trying to output them
prevents any further drawing operations from working on the context.)

So I discover that the doco says "A drawing operator that generates the
shape from a string of UTF-8 characters, rendered according to the current
font_face, font_size (font_matrix), and font_options."

Is this possible? It takes a .Net string, .Net strings are UTF-16, but it
needs UTF-8?

Can someone confirm that there is something wrong here, or tell me what I'm
misunderstanding?

Thanks in advance,

Nev
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