I demand that Ludwig Nussel may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> 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. [...] > Try the following with 'LANG=C' and 'LANG=de_DE.UTF-8'. You will notice > that in the latter case it will not cut the umlaut. [snip code - hmm, dodgy use of printf] Interesting. It omits it entirely. But the rest of my point still stands - it still counts bytes. -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. This message was brought to you using only 100% recycled electrons. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr