Re: [evolution-patches] Re: 43485: strftime usage in e-cell-date

[Mike Kestner <mkestner ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 13:44, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> +
> +       fmt = e_utf8_to_locale_string (fmt);
> +       e_strftime_fix_am_pm (buf, 26, fmt, &then);
> +       g_free (fmt);
> 
> why make buf 26 bytes? do we know for a fact that 26 is plenty for all
> locales? (I know you didn't do this as part of the patch, just bringing
> this up because I noticed it already there).

One in a series of magic numbers throughout etable.  I do not know it
"for a fact."  Based on the format strings in the patch, what number
would you suggest?

> I presume that buf later gets transformed back into UTF-8, yes?

Yep.

Mike