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Re: iconv limitations

AFAICS it expects the length of the input in bytes, so you simply
pass strlen() for zero-terminated strings.

behdad


On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Michael B Allen wrote:

> AFAICT iconv(3) requires that the length of the input be known in advance.
> This is very unfortunate for zero terminated strings as it requires the
> user inspect the string in an encoding specific way to determine it's
> length. Is there simply no way around this?
>
> Mike

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