Abel Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> About detection of multibyte string, is there any
> better method than retrieving LC_TIME and
> lookup the charset inside a predefined array
> containing known multibyte charset?

mblen tells you how many bytes a characters has.  Also MB_CUR_MAX gives
the maximum number of bytes of the characters in the current locale's
charset.

Andreas.

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