David Henningsson wrote: > 1a) can I count on alsa-lib's strings (everything from card name and > mixer identifiers to various descriptions) to be UTF-8 or perhaps > even 7-bit? Alsa-lib itself does not care about the encoding. The strings are whatever the kernel uses. In practice, this almost always means ASCII, but kernel policy is UTF-8. (At the moment, the only way I know of to get a non-ASCII string is from a USB device.) Alsa-lib can also return strings from configuration files. These are encoded in whatever the editor happens to use, i.e., in practice, UTF-8. > 1b) In what way can buggy drivers violate the answers to 1a? The USB driver is not buggy. :) But in theory, you could get any random crap. For testing, you can change a card's "id" attribute in sysfs. > 2) Can I count on the strings to be zero terminated? In theory, yes. > snd_ctl_elem_id_set_name Oops! Using strncpy() here is wrong. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
