Re: libunicode

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 02:46:49PM -0400, Seer wrote:
> 
> looking at glib 2.0.4 from gnome ftp, the criticisms are still
> valid: it doesnt check for overcoded sequences (the UTF8_GET macro
> (notice that the UNICODE_VALID macro seems essentially useless))
> g_utf8_get_char seems to have lost something in the conversion,
> it no longer gives back an updated pointer, which would be useful
> for iterating over a utf-8 string.
> 
> also, its range of error return codes dont give the api user
> enough information to layout a good error message.
> 
> And, it has no support for string visible width computation, which
> could easily be added.
> 
> lastly, gunichar is unsigned. I was thinking it could be signed
> for several reasons, such as using negatives for error codes...
> 
> these functions are in such a fund amental part of the gnome
> codebase, that it might be a good idea to iron them out,
> but i dont imagine any changes being accepted before the big
> release.

why not use wcwidth() ? it does what you request above.

Kind regards
Keld
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