Re: g_malloc overhead

2009-01-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:51 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > I think strncpy() is one of the few that needs an utf8 equivalent, > > because a char may span several bytes. > > Well, he didn't say exactly what semantics he wanted his > g_utf8_strncpy() and g_utf16_strncpy() to have. In the UTF-8 case

Re: g_malloc overhead

2009-01-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi Tor, On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:37 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > What is wrong with: > > gchar* g_utf8_strncpy (gchar *dest,const gchar *src,gsize n); > > It isn't needed. The nice thing about UTF-8 is that strings in UTF-8 > can be handled with normal C str* functions just fine. I think st