On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:21:34PM +1100, Roger So wrote: > > So, given a stream of bytes which might contain multibyte characters, > how would I test whether a byte is, say, printable? Do I need to test > for MB_CUR_MIN to MB_CUR_MAX number of bytes instead of individual > bytes? (seems wildly inefficient ...)
You need to convert the multibyte stream to widechar stream, and work with widechars using iswprint. > Also, in glibc, are widechars always in Unicode? (UCS-4?) Yes, currently glibc use ucs4 to represent widechar internally. However we'd better not to make any assumption when writing a program. > Then zh_HK should copy "zh_CN" instead ...? I'd love to see that :). > I shall have a closer look. Also it seems that an en_HK locale would be > nice for people like me :) Then, go ahead make one. It shouldn't be too much different from en_GB, right? cheers, rigel _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- | This message was re-posted from [email protected] | and converted from gb2312 to big5 by an automatic gateway.
