Re: [wxhaskell-devel] wxString handling broken when using wx 2.9

[Dave T. <duk...@gm...>]

On 20 September 2011 20:57, Dave Tapley <duk...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Am I correct in recalling that you did some of the work to get wxHaskell
> supporting unicode?
>
> I've using wxHaskell with wxWidgets 2.9.2 (the latest development release)
> and it seems that any attempt to get back a wxString in Haskell code will
> result in a "Prelude.chr: bad argument:" crash at run time; I've verified
> that the same code works correctly with wxWidgets 2.8.
>
> A good example is ./samples/wx/ListCtrl.hs, you will get the crash when you
> click on an item in the list.
>
> Now the good news is that this is almost certainly related to the changes to
> unicode handling in wxWidgets:
> http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9/overview_changes_since28.html
>
> But I thought I'd send out a message asking for a sanity check before I get
> too busy working on fixing it.
>
> Dave,
>

Good news everyone!
This is fixed, at least for GTK2 with wx-2.9, I don't know if it
breaks building against previous versions, perhaps someone would like
to find out?

Dave,
Patch attached.