Re: Utf-8 support in C functions on Linux

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:49:08 -0500,
Richard, Francois M <Francois.M.Richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If strncpy() recognizes n characters encoded in utf-8, it means that when it
> reads the bytes, leading and trailing bytes are detected/understood. There
> is some utf-8 decoding operation going on.
> In this case, why strlen() can count only bytes?

By definition, size_t means number of bytes, not number of characters.

(CJK people have treated multibyte characters by trusting strlen() returns
the number of BYTES for tens of years.)

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