Avoid gchar/gint types
These are used throughout the codebase but are apparently on the way out. We should replace them with char/int and use g* types only for unsigned integers or gboolean.
This was described in comments on !597 (merged):
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@zbrown started a discussion: (+3 comments) Avoid types like
gchar
&gint
(exceptions of course beinggboolean
andguint
etc)