Re: [libxml++] program crashes when parsing XML with accent

[Christophe de VIENNE <cdevienne alphacent com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 18:52 +0000, Murray Cumming wrote:
>  
>
> > > My probably stupid question is the following:
> > > Murray, in ustring::ustring(const char* src, ustring::size_type n), is "n" supposed to be the length in utf-8 characters, or in bytes ?
> > >      
> > I think it's meant to be the number of characters. That's not what I'd
> > expect, but I guess it makes sense in terms of translating std::string
> > to Glib::ustring.
> >
> > Actually, in my debugger, the ch paramater to
> > SaxParserCallback::characters() seems to be 0, which is a more likely
> > cause for the crash. I guess we should check for 0.
> >    
>
> Hmm, my debugger seems to be broken. It's a new system.
>
> Rather than getting the number of characters and then giving that to the
> ustring constructor to convert back to number of bytes, I suggest we put
> the string in a std::string and just use the Glib::ustring(std::string)
> constructor. I can't see a more suitable ustring constructor.
>
>  

Indeed (cf my other message).
However I think we should signal this to the glibmm dev team, so they at 
least document it since it does not have the behavior we naturaly though 
it had.

Regards,

Christophe