Ludwig Nussel 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. > > > Well, IIRC "dvb strings" can have embedded control characters so > if you didn't just filter them out you'd have to deal with strlen != > number of characters to render anyways. > > cu > Ludwig Those control characters are filtered in libsi. Klaus
