[gdal-dev] GDAL CSharp bindings maintainers/contributors listening... ?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

This is your regular remainder that nobody in the core GDAL maintainer 
team is a CSharp 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.

See 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22csharp+bindings%22

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.

Happy pull requests!

Even

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