> > If not, what are the other options? > > I don't think you have any: you have to use PQmblen. Depending on wchar > facilities would be unportable even if they did everything you wanted.
I meant pg_wchar. It's in the postgres source, should be pretty portable. > It might be convenient to build an integer array of character start > offsets and then work with that as if it were a wchar array. Yep, I thought about this kind of thing. Thanks for your advice, -- Fabien Coelho - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster