* UNIBYTE_STR_AS_MULTIBYTE_P and UTF-8
@ 2006-10-26 18:57 Chip Coldwell
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From: Chip Coldwell @ 2006-10-26 18:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'm looking at the C macro UNIBYTE_STR_AS_MULTIBYTE_P defined in
src/charset.h, which starts out with this
#define UNIBYTE_STR_AS_MULTIBYTE_P(str, length, bytes) \
(((str)[0] < 0x80 || (str)[0] >= 0xA0) \
? ((bytes) = 1) \
: /* lots, lots more */
So, if the value at str[0] is less than 0x80 or greater than 0xA0,
this macro returns the value one, and sets "bytes" to one.
That's fine for ASCII (always one byte wide) and ISO-8859-1 (with
special characters between 0xA0 and 0xFF), but what about UTF-8?
There are multibyte characters in UTF-8 with the first byte > 0xA0; it
doesn't seem to me that this macro will work for general UTF-8
strings.
Chip
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