At 12:00am -0800 01-02-24, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: Re: FldGetTextLength (fldP) and StrLen (FldGetTextPtr (fldP))
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:09:15 -0000
>X-Message-Number: 88
>
>What if you're using multibyte character (non-English)?
>
> > Are there any circumstances when
>
> > FldGetTextLength (fldP) != StrLen (FldGetTextPtr (fldP))
Though FldGetTextPtr() can return NULL for an empty field which
hasn't been edited.
>That is exactly what I am asking BUT I received no response yet.
>Studying my Field.c [see ValidateField()],
>it's clear that in the released version of the OS 3.5 source files
>the above two are always the same. BUT then I never had a chance to see
>a multi-byte Field.c.
The length of a string in Palm OS is the number of bytes in the
string that precede the terminating '\0' byte. It is not a count of
the number of characters, and thus the behavior doesn't change when
running on a Japanese system which uses a multi-byte character
encoding.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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