Issue 45 - libkml - Unicode is not supported on set_description

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Status:	New
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Type-Enhancement
Priority-Low

Reported by ingenieroariel, Jan 17, 2009

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Using python
1. folder = kmldom.KmlFactory_GetFactory().CreateFolder()
2. folder.set_description(u'test')

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
TypeError: in method 'Feature_set_description', argument 2 of type
'std::string const &'


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6.1 on Ubuntu

Did you run the unit test suite that comes with the project? Did all tests
pass?
No, I just did 'make check' and it 'compiled.

Comment 1 by kml.bent, May 20, 2009

Only the byte-oriented encodings are supported in libkml at this time.
UTF-8, is the preferred way to encode unicode.

Labels: -Type-Defect -Priority-Medium Type-Enhancement Priority-Low