The c-string type handles encoding and decoding to a known encoding like UTF8
which is the default I think.
See the "encode" and "decode" words for under the covers how it works.
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Doug Coleman <doug.cole...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> You can try using the ``c-string`` type in a C function declaration in lieu
> of a ``char*``. I think it will do what you need.
>
> Doug
>
>
>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Mark Green <m...@antelope.nildram.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I want to turn a string into a char-array type to use the GTK library
>> with it, is there a function to do this? I've tried <char-array> but that
>> seems to want to do a multiplication.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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