Re: converting string between gui widgets and octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 10/12/2013 03:18 AM, Torsten wrote:
> Some months ago I added changesets for converting strings into the
> correct charsets between gui widgets like history/file browser and
> octave itself. These conversions have disappeared leading to bug #40239.
> One changeset where the conversion was removed (in that case for the
> octave directory) seems to be 919796a440c6:
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/919796a440c6#l4.37
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/919796a440c6#l4.58
> Was this intended?

I removed the call to toUtf8 because I wasn't sure why it was needed
and we don't use it anywhere else in Octave.  Everything else is just
using toStdString.

If that was a mistake, then please revert it, but can you also please
explain when and why we should be using toUtf8?  I believe that Matlab
uses 16-bit characters, so for compatibility Octave will probably have
to support some kind of wide characters in the future.  Will we have
to change this again?

jwe