l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I would say returning both "number of bytes needed for the full string"
> (as is the case) plus "number of bytes actually written" (which may be
> smaller than MAX_LEN in the case of multi-byte encoding).  This would be
> an addition to the API, IMO, while `scm_to_locale_stringbuf ()' would
> keep behaving as described, with the limitations you outline above.

That sounds good to me.

     Neil


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