From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-12-03T02:03:21+09:00
Subject: Re: How to use rb_enc_str_new() to create a String with UTF-8 encoding?

El Miércoles, 2 de Diciembre de 2009, Brian Candler escribió:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> >   VALUE
> >   rb_enc_str_new(const char *ptr, long len, rb_encoding *enc)
> >   {
> >       VALUE str = rb_str_new(ptr, len);
> >       rb_enc_associate(str, enc);
> >       return str;
> >   }
> >
> > But I have no idea on how to set 'enc' parameter to be "UTF-8".
> > How should I fill the third 'enc' argument?
> 
> I'd say give it a pointer to an rb_encoding object.
> 
> Have a look in encoding.c, this particular function might be useful:
> 
> rb_encoding *
> rb_enc_find(const char *name)
> {
>     int idx = rb_enc_find_index(name);
>     if (idx < 0) idx = 0;
>     return rb_enc_from_index(idx);
> }

Humm, it involves allocating memory for the rb_encoding object and so... not 
so trivial as I desired :)
But that's the way. Thanks a lot.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>