On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Ludwig Nussel (LN) wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > [...]
> > To me, a character is an entity that's always the same size (preferably
> > one byte). UTF-8 breaks with this, so if you have a string that has,
> > e.g. a strlen() of 10, you can't be sure that this will be really 10
> > printing
> > characters because there might be some "escaped" characters.
I think the confusion comes from the assumption that a character is
exactly one byte long.
strlen counts bytes not characters.
in utf-8 a character can be up to 4 (or was it 8) bytes long.
IIRC, there are new functions to count characters (wstrlen, wstrcmp,
etc.)
c ya
Sergei
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