<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">I think it more reflects this thread </font><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2021-April/053868.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2021-April/053868.html</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 09:11, Rahkonen Jukka <<a href="mailto:jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi">jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4376241669221628549">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">The named maintainer thing may reflect this thread
</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/msg35936.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Re: [gdal-dev] C# bindings compilation</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">
from 2021. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">-Jukka Rahkonen-<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Puolesta </b>Paul Harwood via gdal-dev<br>
<b>Lähetetty:</b> keskiviikko 29. tammikuuta 2025 10.14<br>
<b>Vastaanottaja:</b> Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>><br>
<b>Kopio:</b> gdal-dev <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Aihe:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] CSharp bindings queued for removal (was Re: GDAL CSharp bindings maintainers/contributors listening... ?)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems to be a hyper aggressive move to go from a highly technical question about UTF-8 to "remove C# totally".<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If the question is "We need a named maintainer for C# or we remove it" then I will step forward since I have an app that depends on it. However, I don't feel competent enough in SWIG to address detailed changes such as UTF-8 without help.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I seem to remember saying the same thing a few years ago and did not even get an acknowledgement that I had responded.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, 29 Jan 2025, 04:32 Even Rouault via gdal-dev, <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>Hearing silence, the only logical conclusion is that there is no interest ==> <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11746" target="_blank">
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11746</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le 27/09/2024 à 20:15, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>This is your regular remainder that nobody in the core GDAL maintainer team is a CSharp
<span lang="FR">aficionado (we don't have a personal grief against it, just that we are blatantly ignorant, at least speaking for myself !), so related tickets about it will definitely result in no action.
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<p><span lang="FR">See <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22csharp+bindings%22" target="_blank">
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22csharp+bindings%22</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span lang="FR">The current trend is that people seem to be annoyed by UTF-8 related issues. The issue is likely that our methods that accept or take a const char* in the SWIG bindings should use a specific typemap to map to CSharp Unicode strings instead
of the "C" one or whatever those concepts are called in CSharp. There is an existing "utf8_path" typemap that is used in method that accept filenames, that should probably be renamed to utf8_string and be used more extensively. And probably with a version
of the methods to also return a raw C string / bytearray in the cases where drivers don't know the encoding and might return "random" stuff. Cf pull request #10652 where I did something for Java that suffered from that later issue.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Happy pull requests!</span><span lang="FR"> </span>
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