Why are UTF-16 strings used in Mono.Unix? Doesn't this mean that some
resources are inaccessible to programs running under Mono in a
multibyte localeq (such as one using UTF-8)?
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On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:03 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Why are UTF-16 strings used in Mono.Unix? Doesn't this mean that some
> resources are inaccessible to programs running under Mono in a
> multibyte localeq (such as one using UTF-8)?
Care to elaborate? System.String is always used to repr
Jonathan Pryor wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:03 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
Why are UTF-16 strings used in Mono.Unix? Doesn't this mean that some
resources are inaccessible to programs running under Mono in a
multibyte localeq (such as one using UTF-8)?
Care to elaborate? System.String is
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 17:04 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:03 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >>Why are UTF-16 strings used in Mono.Unix? Doesn't this mean that some
> >>resources are inaccessible to programs running under Mono in a
> >>multibyte loc
* Jonathan Pryor:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:03 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Why are UTF-16 strings used in Mono.Unix? Doesn't this mean that some
>> resources are inaccessible to programs running under Mono in a
>> multibyte localeq (such as one using UTF-8)?
>
> Care to elaborate? System.St
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:58 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jonathan Pryor:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:03 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> Why are UTF-16 strings used in Mono.Unix? Doesn't this mean that some
> >> resources are inaccessible to programs running under Mono in a
> >> multibyte lo
* Jonathan Pryor:
> This won't work with a great deal more than just Mono applications.
> This will likely also "break" for every app that uses a runtime (Java,
> Perl, Python),
It doesn't break for Perl or Python, nor Emacs or vi.
> and certainly won't work with GTK+/Gnome applications
> unless
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:18 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> No, this is not what I want. I want to be able to write code which
> can access all files the user has read access to, irrespective of
> their names.
Thank you for pointing this out. I didn't have a test case for this
scenario until now,
