[jira] [Created] (ETCH-177) Incorrect multibyte character encoding/handling

["Thomas Marsh (Created) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Incorrect multibyte character encoding/handling
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                 Key: ETCH-177
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ETCH-177
             Project: Etch
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: c-binding
         Environment: Experienced on Linux/ARM
            Reporter: Thomas Marsh
            Priority: Blocker


The Etch C binding relies on the compiler dependent wchar_t throughout to handle multibyte strings. It makes incorrect assumptions about the encoding by relying on sizeof(wchar_t) in etch_encoding_for_wchar(). This limits portability across compilers and results numerous issues throughout the code. Within etch_encoding_transcode_wchar() there is a cast from wchar_t* to char*, which does not work. (I'm not sure how it even works on any environment.) The correct way to handle this is to convert the string with wcstombs().

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