From ef9d7d498718d6a9707c0e7a2687f50da76a81e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mus M <mus-m@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 16:27:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use transcode for string convert to Julia

---
 README.md      | 6 ++----
 src/mxarray.jl | 7 ++-----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d278da7..b2d6e56 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,11 +20,9 @@ By default, `MATLAB.jl` uses the MATLAB installation with the greatest version n
 
 ### Windows
 
-1. Start a Command Prompt as an Administrator.
+1. Start a Command Prompt as an Administrator and enter `matlab /regserver`.
 
-2. Enter `matlab /regserver` in the command prompt.
-
-3. From Julia run: `Pkg.add("MATLAB")`
+2. From Julia run: `Pkg.add("MATLAB")`
 
 
 ### Linux
diff --git a/src/mxarray.jl b/src/mxarray.jl
index d824b15..2fae6bd 100644
--- a/src/mxarray.jl
+++ b/src/mxarray.jl
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ typealias MxNum Union{MxRealNum, MxComplexNum}
 
 typealias mwSize UInt
 typealias mwIndex Int
+typealias mxChar UInt16
 typealias mxClassID Cint
 typealias mxComplexity Cint
 
@@ -639,11 +640,7 @@ function jstring(mx::MxArray)
     if !(classid(mx) == mxCHAR_CLASS && ((ndims(mx) == 2 && nrows(mx) == 1) || is_empty(mx)))
         throw(ArgumentError("jstring only applies to strings (i.e. char vectors)."))
     end
-    len = ncols(mx) + 1
-    tmp = Array(UInt8, len)
-    ccall(_mx_get_string, Cint, (Ptr{Void}, Ptr{UInt8}, mwSize), mx, tmp, len)
-    pop!(tmp)
-    String(tmp)
+    return transcode(String, unsafe_wrap(Array, Ptr{mxChar}(data_ptr(mx)), ncols(mx)))
 end
 
 function jdict(mx::MxArray)