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 always used to represent strings in Mono.Unix and Mono.Unix.Native, but Mono's marshaler will convert the strings to UTF-8 for the P/Invoke call.
A peek at Mono.Unix/UnixMarshal.cs hints that managed strings are marshalled to/from the locale encoding (assuming Encoding.Default is the locale encoding); so locales other than UTF-8 ought to also work. Florian, for some background on how CLI/.NET/Mono code interfaces to native code, and specifically how paramters of various types are handled see: http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_Libraries -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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