2008/7/7 LCID Fire <lcid-fire@xxxxxxx>:
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
> 2008/7/6 LCID Fire <lcid-fire@xxxxxxx <mailto:lcid-fire@xxxxxxx>>:
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.
>
>
> 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)?
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