I demand that Ludwig Nussel may or may not have written... [snip] > asprintf needs to check for multibyte characters to not cut them in > the middle and produce invalid output. No - it's encoding-neutral. What you want is your own version which does that (but if you still think that that should be called asprintf, you may as well rewrite printf etc. while you're at it), or conversion to/from wide character strings (and a version of asprintf() which handles wchar_t*). -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 => avoid boiling weather. TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. Windows 2000. Known to some as Windows 1900. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr