[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59214] [octave forge] (windows) The COM interface should handle UTF-8 encoded strings

[Markus Mützel]

URL:
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                 Summary: [octave forge] (windows) The COM interface should
handle UTF-8 encoded strings
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mmuetzel
            Submitted on: Fri 02 Oct 2020 01:29:31 PM CEST
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: other
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

There is an ongoing effort to have a uniform encoding for strings inside
Octave and to move conversions to the interfaces.
Some time back, we decided that this encoding should be UTF-8.

The COM interface of the windows package uses the system's locale encoding for
strings passed to and from COM objects. The attached patch uses functions
introduced in core Octave 5 to convert to and from UTF-8 instead.
It applies on top of the released version 1.5.0.

I'm not sure which versions of Octave are targeted for the windows package.
But you probably want to use those functions conditionally on a configure
result.

Apart from the missing configure check, does that look ok to you?



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Date: Fri 02 Oct 2020 01:29:31 PM CEST  Name: of-windows-1-COM_encoding.patch 
Size: 1KiB   By: mmuetzel

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=49915>

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