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

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Ulf Karlsson <ulfc kortedala phetto com> writes:

> >  - 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.

the point is that the string passed from g_print() to glibc is not
necessarily in UTF-8 encoding since g_print() does character set
conversion to the charset specified by the locale.


Salut, Sven