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Please provide peekUTF8CString and withUTF8CString #32

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joshtriplett opened this issue Jul 4, 2012 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #254
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Please provide peekUTF8CString and withUTF8CString #32

joshtriplett opened this issue Jul 4, 2012 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #254

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Most UNIX APIs work in UTF-8, not UTF-16. Rather than having to write wrappers that encode/decode UTF-8 and run ByteString's packCString and useAsCString functions (and the corresponding ...Len variants), please consider providing these functions directly in either Data.Text.Foreign or Data.Text.Encoding. Such wrappers would make c2hs bindings easier to write.
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bos commented Jan 15, 2013

Happy to consider this, if you've an idea of what the APIs should specifically look like.

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Same type signatures as peekCString and withCString, using the CString type, but accepting/producing UTF-8 respectively.

bos added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 22, 2013
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Implement peekCStringLen and withCStringLen (gh-32)
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That commit added the Len variants, but not the peekUTF8CString and withUTF8CString functions needed to work with the much more common NUL-terminated UTF-8. Could you please add that pair of functions as well?

andersk added a commit to andersk/haskell-text that referenced this issue Mar 13, 2019
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Add peekCString, withCString for converting NUL terminated C strings
32ab7e3 
While here, document that `peekCStringLen`, `withCStringLen` are O(n)
as well.

Fixes haskell#32.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
andersk added a commit to andersk/haskell-text that referenced this issue Mar 13, 2019
@andersk
Add peekCString, withCString for converting NUL terminated C strings
0bcbdd0 
Since NUL-terminated CString is much more common in foreign APIs than
CStringLen, one should not have to manually build these functions out
of `peekCStringLen`, `withCStringLen` (and perhaps get it wrong, like
I did in jgm/cmark-hs#13).

While here, document that `peekCStringLen`, `withCStringLen` are O(n)
as well.

Fixes haskell#32.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
@andersk andersk mentioned this issue Mar 13, 2019
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andersk added a commit to andersk/haskell-text that referenced this issue Mar 13, 2019
@andersk
Add peekCString, withCString for converting NUL terminated C strings
caa1112 
Since NUL-terminated CString is much more common in foreign APIs than
CStringLen, one should not have to manually build these functions out
of `peekCStringLen`, `withCStringLen` (and perhaps get it wrong, like
I did in jgm/cmark-hs#13).

While here, document that `peekCStringLen`, `withCStringLen` are O(n)
as well.

Fixes haskell#32.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
andersk added a commit to andersk/haskell-text that referenced this issue Apr 6, 2021
@andersk
Add peekCString, withCString for converting NUL terminated C strings
d5b40df 
Since NUL-terminated CString is much more common in foreign APIs than
CStringLen, one should not have to manually build these functions out
of `peekCStringLen`, `withCStringLen` (and perhaps get it wrong, like
I did in jgm/cmark-hs#13).

While here, document that `withCStringLen` is O(n) as well.

Fixes haskell#32.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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