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SWIG/c#: Update string marshaling code to use utf-8 native strings
Update C# SWIG typemap to marshal array of strings as an array of utf-8 strings, as RFC 5 suggests.
This fixes generated c# bindings and makes .net code to work with the datasets containing non-ascii characters in the text data.
What does this PR do?
Fix SWIG/.net typemaps to treat strings in string arrays as utf-8 strings. This makes the datasets containing non-ascii characters in the text data usable by the .NET applications.
The use of UTF-8 in character data is mandated by RFC 5 (https://gdal.org/en/stable/development/rfc/rfc5_unicode.html).
What are related issues/pull requests?
Tasklist
- [ ] AI (Copilot or something similar) supported my development of this PR
- [ ] Make sure code is correctly formatted (cf pre-commit configuration)
- [ ] Add test case(s)
- [ ] Add documentation
- [ ] Updated Python API documentation (swig/include/python/docs/)
- [ ] Review
- [ ] Adjust for comments
- [ ] All CI builds and checks have passed
coverage: 71.089% (+0.004%) from 71.085% when pulling 0a1d4f871d4f1fc245e599e3623637a65593462d on dz-fsd:master into ccc68946e6a2a901f7f1592e77e322048a1566b9 on OSGeo:master.
hello , will this pr meged into next release?
I'll be trying to review the UTF8 issues reported for the C# bindings and apply the necessary changes in the next few days.
hello , will this pr meged into next release?
Sorry I didn't have time to apply the suggested changes. Please bear with me for a day or two :)