Udo Richter wrote: > Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > > since asprintf leads to segfaults if feeded with incorrect UTF-8 characters, > > I wanted to write a wrapper function which would then check the return value > > of asprintf. > > I never understood what the problem is with utf8 and asprintf, since > utf8 is mostly ASCIIZ backwards compatible, and asprintf probably > doesn't even know the difference between utf8 and ascii. What special > handling does asprintf with utf8? Is there some example that causes the > trouble? asprintf needs to check for multibyte characters to not cut them in the middle and produce invalid output. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr