From: nalaginrut nalagin...@gmail.com >>hi all! >I found SCM_STRING_CHARS is deprecated, but I didn't find it's >alternative from NEWS. Could anybody tell me where to find it?
The move to Unicode makes things a lot more complicated, unfortunately. Strings before 1.9.x were 8-bit, so the way they were stored had to be changed. Since their storage is now different, it isn't a good idea to directly access the storage with macros like SCM_STRING_CHARS. There are the functions scm_to_locale_string, scm_to_latin1_string, scm_to_stringn, and scm_to_utf8_string. But, unlike SCM_STRING_CHARS, the results of these functions need to be freed. Respect, -Mike
