On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com>wrote:
> Nikita Churaev [2013-02-27 23:26 +0400]: > 3. Gtk.TextBuffer.set_text(text, length) --- length argument is useless, > > since JavaScript uses UTF-16 and length expects length of UTF-8 string. > > I'm afraid we have to live with little oddities like this. I think > it's better to stay compatible with the C API and its documentation, > and all currently existing JavaScript program which use the API than > breaking API and continuously chasing after weird cases like that. > I don't think skipping the length arg in this case could work even if API breakage was acceptable. I assume a skip implies a value of zero is used and in this case that would not work. A better alternative would be default value support. This way the oddity can be avoided in client code without breaking API and in general would be a very nice feature. However, new code using this would need to specify it only works with advanced versions of GLib or the libraries providing defaults. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558620 -Simon
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