That's great - simplifies a lot of things. But since one character might need more space than a gchar is it save to call strlen on that string? Thanks Milosz Derezynski wrote: > Yes an UTF-8 string a NULL-terminated ASCII-compatible string. For all > purposes except where you need to read it character-by-character (e.g. > Gtk+/Pango "reading" the string to display it), you can just treat it > like a normal ASCII string. > > 2008/7/6 LCID Fire <lcid-fire@xxxxxxx <mailto:lcid-fire@xxxxxxx>>: > > I'm currently in the process of writing an application which needs to > support unicode - but I'm still a little confused of how to properly > handle it. Maybe someone can help me out here. > > First of is it valid for e.g. utf8 strings to assume they are NULL > terminated? Would it be valid to call g_strdup on a utf8 string? > > If not (and this is done quite often in the unicode glib part) I assume > I have to add the byte length of a string, right (which will bloat > function declarations)? _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
