Re: dealing with utf8 filenames

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Mittwoch, den 22.02.2006, 08:17 -0800 schrieb Alan M. Evans:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 07:59, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't have a problem with pointer arithmetic. My problem is that I'm
> doing arithmetic on one string (the case-folded version) and applying
> that math to another string (the original version). This can only be
> correct if the two strings are the same length in bytes. I don't believe
> that's a sure thing with UTF-8.

Yes, I think that is correct.

> > 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)
>
> Surely that won't work if there is more than one dot in the name!

Why? :)

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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>