Re: dealing with utf8 filenames

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Mittwoch, den 22.02.2006, 07:09 -0800 schrieb Alan M. Evans:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:25, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> >  > Also, I don't think the string returned from g_utf8_casefold() is
> >  > guaranteed to be the same length as the original, so my calculation
> >  > for string length is incorrect.
> >
> > Umm, no? You look at the casefolded string and calculate the length of
> > the part up to the '.' of that?
>
> Yes, that's what I'm doing. No, I don't think it's correct.

You can perfectly do pointer arithmetic with UTF-8 encoded strings.

For the sake of readability, I'd rather use the following code:

char **str;

/* str[0]: basename
   str[1]: extension */
str = g_strsplit (filename, ".", 2);

g_strfreev(str)

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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>