[Gretl-devel] Re: silent failure of string functions with non-UTF8 encoding (Windows codepage)

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> For good measure I've added a recode() function in git (just exposes >> GLib functionality). So you can now do, e.g., >> >> string s = recode(s, "cp1250", "utf8") May I object to the function name? In the context of a statistical package, the name recode() seems to point at a _numerical_ recoding function, like what we do with replace(). I'd be happier with something like textrecode(), if not too long.