RE: [xml] UTF8Toisolat1() usage

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morus Walter [mailto:morus walter tanto-xipolis de]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:06 AM
> To: xml gnome org
> Subject: RE: [xml] UTF8Toisolat1() usage
>
>
> Henke, Markus writes:
>
> > An (out-) buffer that's convertet
> > from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 will never need more than twice the space
> > as the corresponding in-buffer.
> Though this isn't wrong, the effect is the other way round:
>
> A conversion from UTF8 to Latin1 may only shorten the text (down to
> the half of the utf8 byte length in extreme cases).
> So allocating a buffer of the size of the UTF8 text will be 
> sufficiant.
>
> If you convert Latin1 to UTF8 the text might need up to twice 
> the space.
>
>       Morus

Yep, silly me. I've mixed up the directions...  :)