Strake dixit: >In UTF-8 the maximum encoded character length is 6 bytes [1]
Right, but the largest codepoint in Unicode is U-0001FFFF, which is �: F0 9F BF BF in UTF-8. Most things are in the BMP anyway – for example, the distance between the lowest and highest encoded glyph in an X11 font is roughly 2¹⁶, so you’ll end up using up to 3 octets normally, but at additional cost for some operations (glyph width, and, though very minor, movement across characters). Actually, wint_t is the standard type to use for this. One could also use wchar_t but that may be an unsigned short on some systems, or a signed or unsigned int. uint32_t makes sense, if one doesn’t want to go after the possible savings on 16-bit Unicode systems, since signed integers in C are almost Undefined anyway… bye, //mirabilos -- 15:39⎜«mika:#grml» mira|AO: "mit XFree86® wär’ das nicht passiert" - muhaha 15:48⎜<thkoehler:#grml> also warum machen die xorg Jungs eigentlich alles kaputt? :) 15:49⎜<novoid:#grml> thkoehler: weil sie als Kinder nie den gebauten Turm selber umschmeissen durften? -- ~/.Xmodmap wonders…
