The Marshal::PtrToStringAnsi function converts all byte values greater than 127
to 63, therefore making it useless as an 8-bit clean option.
Since Lua does not specify a character encoding for its strings, there's no
good solution here if you want to support Unicode and interop with Lua.
However, I don't think you should be making things worse via the LuaInterface
layer by destroying data with Marshal::PtrToStringAnsi.
If you offer a lossless data conversion operation that just widens the 8-bit
values to 16-bit values for storage in a managed string then the application
itself can deal with the character encoding fiasco. Yes, that'll involve
converting the string to a `char[]` and then pulling out the `byte` values from
there. Perhaps just offering the string as a `char[]` would be best?
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
LuaInterface 2.0.3
Original issue reported on code.google.com by james.jdunne@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2012 at 1:29
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
james.jdunne@gmail.comon 23 Apr 2012 at 1:29