Re: g_malloc overhead

["PHILIP PAGE, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN" <ppage bloomberg net>]

> strncpy() works fine for C strings that represent text in whatever
> multi-byte codeset (as long as it lacks zero bytes), like UTF-8,
> Microsoft's double-byte codepages, etc.
>
> (Well, I exaggerate, obviously if you want to be sure that multi-byte
> characters don't get truncated you shouldn't use strncpy(), but some
> encoding-aware function.)

That encoding-aware function would be g_utf8_strlcpy.
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520116
This was entered by Behdad some time back. I have recently attached a proposed implementation. Maybe it can be committed.

Philip Page
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