[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54170] java.lang.String.toCharArray result incorrect conversion to char matrix

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #54170 (project octave):

I see a few workable alternatives here, in increasing order of difficulty:

1. Convert Java `char` to Octave `uint16` instead of Octave `char`

2. Do not auto-convert Java `char[]`; leave them as Java objects. (This leaves
the question of what to do with scalar Java `char`s.)

3. Add a `wchar` type to Octave, and convert Java `char` to that.

4. Change Octave's `char` to be UTF-16, to match Matlab. (See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2018-05/msg00137.html)

Thoughts on which is preferable in the short term? I may be able to do a patch
for 1 or 2.

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