H-uru/Plasma — pull request #127 by zrax (2012-01-29 02:16:24+00:00)
Title: Start using plString

Plasma currently has at least a dozen different ways of handling string data... plString is a (new) consistent interface which supports Unicode strings (UTF-8 internally), conversion between string data types, automatic reference counting and a large amount of helper functionality to improve ease of use, safety and memory management.

This pull request is the "first glimpse" of plString functionality -- it only converts a relatively small subset of the strings to the new interface, but it makes it available for new modules to use, and I would like to eventually replace the majority of Plasma's strings with it.