It's "safe" in the aforementioned sense, but if you want to properly count characters in the UTF-8 string, you should use g_utf8_strlen() instead.
2008/7/7 LCID Fire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That's great - simplifies a lot of things. But since one character might > need more space than a gchar is it save to call strlen on that string? > > Thanks > > Milosz Derezynski wrote: > > Yes an UTF-8 string a NULL-terminated ASCII-compatible string. For all > > purposes except where you need to read it character-by-character (e.g. > > Gtk+/Pango "reading" the string to display it), you can just treat it > > like a normal ASCII string. > > > > 2008/7/6 LCID Fire <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > > > I'm currently in the process of writing an application which needs to > > support unicode - but I'm still a little confused of how to properly > > handle it. Maybe someone can help me out here. > > > > First of is it valid for e.g. utf8 strings to assume they are NULL > > terminated? Would it be valid to call g_strdup on a utf8 string? > > > > If not (and this is done quite often in the unicode glib part) I > assume > > I have to add the byte length of a string, right (which will bloat > > function declarations)? > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > -- ------------ Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]
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