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* What's the alternative for SCM_STRING_CHARS ?
@ 2011-02-24  5:17 nalaginrut
  2011-02-24  9:12 ` Andy Wingo
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From: nalaginrut @ 2011-02-24  5:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guile-user

hi all!
I found SCM_STRING_CHARS is deprecated, but I didn't find it's
alternative from NEWS. Could anybody tell me where to find it?


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* Re: What's the alternative for SCM_STRING_CHARS ?
@ 2011-02-24  6:46 Mike Gran
  2011-02-24  6:57 ` nalaginrut
  2011-02-24 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Mike Gran @ 2011-02-24  6:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: NalaGinrut@gmail.com, guile-user@gnu.org

From: nalaginrut nalaginrut@gmail.com

>>hi all!
>I found SCM_STRING_CHARS is deprecated, but I didn't find it's
>alternative from NEWS. Could anybody tell me where to find it?

The move to Unicode makes things a lot more complicated, unfortunately.
Strings before 1.9.x were 8-bit, so the way they were stored had to 
be changed.  Since their storage is now different, it isn't a good idea
to directly access the storage with macros like SCM_STRING_CHARS.

There are the functions scm_to_locale_string, scm_to_latin1_string,
scm_to_stringn, and  scm_to_utf8_string.  But, unlike SCM_STRING_CHARS,
the results of these functions need to be freed.

Respect,

-Mike



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* Re: What's the alternative for SCM_STRING_CHARS ?
  2011-02-24  6:46 Mike Gran
@ 2011-02-24  6:57 ` nalaginrut
  2011-02-24 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: nalaginrut @ 2011-02-24  6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mike Gran; +Cc: guile-user@gnu.org

> The move to Unicode makes things a lot more complicated, unfortunately.
> Strings before 1.9.x were 8-bit, so the way they were stored had to 
> be changed.  Since their storage is now different, it isn't a good idea
> to directly access the storage with macros like SCM_STRING_CHARS.
> 
> There are the functions scm_to_locale_string, scm_to_latin1_string,
> scm_to_stringn, and  scm_to_utf8_string.  But, unlike SCM_STRING_CHARS,
> the results of these functions need to be freed.
> 
> Respect,
> 
> -Mike

Thanks! But it sounds like I got a lot code to change. :-)

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* Re: What's the alternative for SCM_STRING_CHARS ?
  2011-02-24  5:17 What's the alternative for SCM_STRING_CHARS ? nalaginrut
@ 2011-02-24  9:12 ` Andy Wingo
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Andy Wingo @ 2011-02-24  9:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: NalaGinrut; +Cc: guile-user

On Thu 24 Feb 2011 06:17, nalaginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> writes:

> hi all!
> I found SCM_STRING_CHARS is deprecated, but I didn't find it's
> alternative from NEWS. Could anybody tell me where to find it?

Search down farther :)  It is in the 1.8.0 NEWS.

Regards,

Andy
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http://wingolog.org/



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* Re: What's the alternative for SCM_STRING_CHARS ?
  2011-02-24  6:46 Mike Gran
  2011-02-24  6:57 ` nalaginrut
@ 2011-02-24 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2011-02-24 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guile-user

Hello,

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> There are the functions scm_to_locale_string, scm_to_latin1_string,
> scm_to_stringn, and  scm_to_utf8_string.  But, unlike SCM_STRING_CHARS,
> the results of these functions need to be freed.

For the record scm_{to,from}_locale_string were already the only
supported way of dealing with C strings in 1.8.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




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