[vdr] vdr-1.3.27 and UTF-8

[Sergei Haller]

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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