> On Saturday, 11 January 2020, 01:59:00 GMT, Jason Martin via vala-list <vala-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Does [CCode (type = "char*")] limit string to ascii only?
char declares the type so the compiler knows the size of the memory. On POSIX (Unix) and most other platforms that is 8 bits. The * indicates the parameter is a pointer to that data type. The rest is convention. So typically char* points to an array of char that is used to hold a string. The convention in C is for this array to be terminated by zero. The character encoding is not specified to the compiler, it is a matter to be agreed upon by the programs using the char array. It could be ASCII, but there are plenty of other character encodings that can fit in a char (typically 8 bits) and this include multi-byte encodings like Unicode's UTF-8. So, no, [CCode (type = "char*")] doesn't limit the string to ASCII. > If not should I just use char*?Good question. You should probably just use > 'string' to start with. I guess the [CCode (type = "char*")] is to stop a > compiler warning about gchar*, but I've not investigate that with any code. Hope that helps, Al _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
