* string.c (rb_locale_str_new): new function to convert string

from locale to internal encoding.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@19854 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Oct 20 15:42:02 2008  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* string.c (rb_locale_str_new): new function to convert string
+	  from locale to internal encoding.
+
 Mon Oct 20 09:47:13 2008  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* test/runner.rb: search srcdir/test/arg at first to find test/ruby

include/ruby/intern.h

@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ VALUE rb_tainted_str_new_cstr(const char*);
 VALUE rb_tainted_str_new(const char*, long);
 VALUE rb_tainted_str_new2(const char*);
 VALUE rb_external_str_new(const char*, long);
+VALUE rb_locale_str_new(const char*, long);
 VALUE rb_str_buf_new(long);
 VALUE rb_str_buf_new_cstr(const char*);
 VALUE rb_str_buf_new2(const char*);

string.c

@@ -526,6 +526,12 @@ rb_external_str_new(const char *ptr, long len)
     return rb_external_str_new_with_enc(ptr, len, rb_default_external_encoding());
 }
 
+VALUE
+rb_locale_str_new(const char *ptr, long len)
+{
+    return rb_external_str_new_with_enc(ptr, len, rb_locale_encoding());
+}
+
 static VALUE
 str_replace_shared(VALUE str2, VALUE str)
 {