On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:40:29 +0200 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> What is the use of writing bytes to a string? In many cases you may end up > with corrupt sequences, since the bytes produced by a external format do not > need to correspond to valid strings in the latin-1 and ucs4 formats which > are used internally by ECL. What I would have expected is for bytes to be decoded to characters as per the specified external-format, just like when reading from a file or network stream. This way, the ECL unicode encoders and decoders are no longer a black box and no external resources are needed when custom encoders/decoders are used in user code... For instance in this case, URLs are encoded as UTF-8 octets with % HEX HEX for every needed and non-ASCII byte. I then could perform the needed decoding to bytes in a custom function and read the bytes as UTF-8 characters. Of course, if that worked, any decoding error would be expected to also signal an error just like when reading bytes from a file or socket. Tomorrow I might have time to test the latest fixes you commited. Thanks again, -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
