PIDL: Problem generating strings without charset parameter

[Javier Amor Garcia]

 > If this is for a field that actually has text in it, what encoding is 
it in?

I don't know the encoding until runtime, normally is a windows code 
page, which is given in another member of the struct.
So I cannot do any generic check or conversion with it.

Cheers,

Javier

On 10/14/2015 05:37 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:19:39PM +0200, Javier Amor Garcia wrote:
>> I am using the PIDL generator and I have the problem is that if I remove
>> the 'charset' parameter for a string. the generated code is always a
>> uint8* types and I want instead to get a 'const char*'.
> That is working as intended. If there is no known character set, these
> are just raw bytes - as pidl doesn't know using what encoding to interpret them
> and convert them to Samba's local character set.
>
> If this is for a field that actually has text in it, what encoding is it in?
> If this is for a field that has non-text data, why do you need it to be a "char
> *"?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>