minor updates to make msgpack to work on octave

Author: fangq

jdatadecode.m

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
             if(iscell(data(j).(N_('_ArrayData_'))))
                 data(j).(N_('_ArrayData_'))=cell2mat(cellfun(@(x) double(x(:)),data(j).(N_('_ArrayData_')),'uniformoutput',0)).';
             end
-            ndata=cast(data(j).(N_('_ArrayData_')),data(j).(N_('_ArrayType_')));
+            ndata=cast(data(j).(N_('_ArrayData_')),char(data(j).(N_('_ArrayType_'))));
         end
         iscpx=0;
         if(~isempty(strmatch(N_('_ArrayIsComplex_'),fn)))

loadmsgpack.m

@@ -185,7 +185,11 @@
 end
 
 function [str, idx] = parsestring(len, bytes, idx)
-    str = native2unicode(bytes(idx:idx+len-1)', 'utf-8');
+    if(~isoctavemesh)
+         str = native2unicode(bytes(idx:idx+len-1)', 'utf-8');
+    else
+         str = bytes(idx:idx+len-1)';
+    end
     idx = idx + len;
 end
 
@@ -223,7 +227,7 @@
     out = struct();
     for n=1:len
         [key, idx] = parse(bytes, idx);
-        [out.(valid_field(key)), idx] = parse(bytes, idx);
+        [out.(valid_field(char(key))), idx] = parse(bytes, idx);
     end
 end
 

nestbracket2dim.m

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 %
 % input:
 %      str: a string-formatted JSON array using square-brackets for enclosing
-%           elements and comma a separator between elements
+%           elements and comma as separators between elements
 %      brackets: (optional), a string of length 2, with the first character
 %               being the opening token and the 2nd being the closing token.
 %               if not given, brackets is set to '[]' to find matching square-brackets;