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]>: > 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 > gtk-list@gnome.org > 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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