Re: g_malloc overhead

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:51 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> > I think strncpy() is one of the few that needs an utf8 equivalent,
>> > because a char may span several bytes.
>>
>> Well, he didn't say exactly what semantics he wanted his
>> g_utf8_strncpy() and g_utf16_strncpy() to have. In the UTF-8 case,
>> should the "size" mean characters or bytes? In the UTF-16 case,
>> characters or 16-bit units?
>>
>> The existing g_utf8_strncpy() has it meaning characters. As such I
>> think the name is bit unfortunate, because of the similarity to
>> strncpy() but then different semantics of the "size" parameter.
>
> Even if the meaning was "bytes", I think an utf8-aware function that
> avoids cutting in the middle of a multibyte char is a plus.

Then the meaning wouldn't be bytes anymore. It would be bytes with
some exceptions, which would A LOT more confusing.

>
>        Xav
>
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