How to treat Array<ffi.Char>?

[dcvz]

Hello team! I'm having an issue with the Array type that I couldn't find an answer to in previous issues.

I'm bridging over a type of:

char cFileName[1024];

// to

@ffi.Array.multi([1024])
external ffi.Array<ffi.Char> cFileName;

I'm wondering how I should be converting that to a string. I'm currently doing it with:

return utf8.decode(_data.ref.spreadCFileName().toList(), allowMalformed: false);

Iterable<int> spreadCFileName() sync* {
  for (var i = 0; i < MAX_PATH; i++) {
    final value = cFileName[i];
    if (value == 0) {
      return;
    }

    yield value;
  }
}

This works, but fails to handle accents like in Charité which returns an error of: Unhandled Exception: FormatException: Invalid UTF-8 byte (at offset 16) unless I set allowMalformed: true