Re: glib-2.2.1: g_print() with UTF-8 characters

[Ulf Karlsson <ulfc kortedala phetto com>]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions.

> Notes here:
> 
>  - Glibc has a "feature" where %Ns actually checks for a whole 
>    number of characters in the current encoding. So, unless you
>    are sure you are always going to be in an UTF-8 locale, avoid
>    using %Ns. (You are basically OK for iso-8859-1, but will
>    have problems in say, a Japanese locale.)

It would make sense for g_print() to interpret %Ns correcly since it
assumes that the strings passed to it always are encoded in UTF-8.  If
I could tell glibc that all strings passed to it will be encoded in
UTF-8 no matter what the current locale is, then that would solve my
problems.

Ulf