Re: iconv limitations

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:57:31AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> And it's still a little slow and it makes for ugly code. It makes me wince
> to have to scan for the terminator when I know it could be done much much
> cleaner in the conversion routine.

Personally, I consider this a flaw in the concept of nul-terminated strings.
strlen() being O(n) is just silly.  As I code mostly in C++ these days,
I use std::string or derivatives, which avoids that.  YMMV, of course.

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Glenn Maynard

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