[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8268230: Foreign Linker API & Windows user32/kernel32: String conversion seems broken [v3]

Fri Jul 9 07:44:23 UTC 2021

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:25:29 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

> leave encoding and decoding using other character sets (including determining the length of a native string) to be implemented manually.

Can you give us a hint, how such manual re-encoding could look like, if an C lib wants to consume a different charset?

If I call `CLinker.toCString(new String(bytes, UTF-16BE))`, it'll still be converted to UTF-8 internally.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/554