On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:01:36 +0200 "Milosz Derezynski" <internalerror@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's "safe" in the aforementioned sense, but if you want to properly > count characters in the UTF-8 string, you should use g_utf8_strlen() > instead. > > 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? It is not just "safe" in the sense described above, but required if you need to know the byte length (say to allocate storage on the heap). If you need to know the byte length use strlen(). If you need to know the number of characters (which will be rare, unless you are thinking of converting say to UCS-4), then use g_utf8_strlen(). If you want to iterate over the string then g_utf8_next_char() is handy. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
