On 26 Apr 2006, at 13:57, Roland Schwingel wrote:
Hi...
A few minutes ago I was reading (after a long time) thru current
gnustep-base code...
In NSProcessInfo.m:_gnu_process_args() I assume some unicode
problems, which would be easy to fix...
The arguments and/or the env supplied to this function can be
encoded in utf-8.
Sure they can.
So the initWithCString:/stringWithCString: calls in this functions
should be replaced
by initWithUTF8:/stringWithUTF8 calls. Elsewise I think this will
cause problems if
you run apps located in unicode folders or when using
environmentvariables/arguments
containing utf-8 characters...
I think not ...
The argument/environment strings are, (by definition since they are
coming from outside the program), in the external character encoding.
The initWithCString: method initialises a string with data in the
external character encoding. The current code should therefore be
correct whatever the external encoding is.
If you changed the code to use initWithUTF8String: it would be wrong
on any system where UTF8 is not used as the external character coding.
NB. NSString determines the external character encoding from standard
environment variables, and those variable names and values are by
definition ASCII, and are accessed via plain C functions and should
therefore work irrespective of the external character encoding in use.
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