Vala problems

[Emill]

Hello. I have some problems with Vala. I want to read a file and store it in a string that is not utf-8 encoded, because it is some binary data and the substring-function thinks it is an utf-8-encoded string...
http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial#head-f2b5a7a55957645fb83905eea9660f9293bd1a70
It's that code I use:


string filename = "file";
string content;
ulong len;
FileUtils.get_contents (filename, out content, out len);

Is there any way to tell it it's not an utf-8-string? I also have some problems that if it contains a null-character, it cuts the string at that point if I do this:


string content2 = content;

content2 will be the shorter string.

[Quikee]

Hello. I have some problems with Vala. I want to read a file and store it in a string that is not utf-8 encoded, because it is some binary data and the substring-function thinks it is an utf-8-encoded string...
http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial#head-f2b5a7a55957645fb83905eea9660f9293bd1a70
It's that code I use:


string filename = "file";
string content;
ulong len;
FileUtils.get_contents (filename, out content, out len);

Is there any way to tell it it's not an utf-8-string? I also have some problems that if it contains a null-character, it cuts the string at that point if I do this:


string content2 = content;

content2 will be the shorter string.

Strings in Vala are always utf-8 as far as I know. Try to use gio (FileInputStream for example) that can read it as a void* or play with IConv and convert() if you will be able to convert to another character set (ascii).

I will try to play with this problem later as it seems interesting (I have not yet done something like this in Vala).