<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">It seems to be a hyper aggressive move to go from a highly technical question about UTF-8 to "remove C# totally".<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I seem to remember saying the same thing a few years ago and did not even get an acknowledgement that I had responded.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Paul</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 29 Jan 2025, 04:32 Even Rouault via gdal-dev, <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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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" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11746</a><br>
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<div>Le 27/09/2024 à 20:15, Even Rouault via
gdal-dev a écrit :<br>
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>This is your regular remainder that nobody in the core GDAL
maintainer team is a CSharp <span lang="fr"><span><span>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. <br>
</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="fr"><span><span>See
<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22csharp+bindings%22" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22csharp+bindings%22</a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="fr"><span><span>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.<br>
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<span lang="fr"><span><span>Happy pull requests!</span></span></span>
<p><span lang="fr"><span><span>Even<br>
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