On 5/6/05, Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, I have been silly. Thanks a lot for info from both of you; sincerely I know almost nothing about programming that needs to handle multibyte strings. This means determining the value of mblen() or mbrlen() > 1 for all chars in am_pm, if this is true then the string is multibyte and don't impose tolower/toupper on it? Abel > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra�e 5, 90409 N�rnberg, Germany > Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." > _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
