[Lots of StrNCopy stuff snipped] > > I think this will also work for an encoding such as UTF-8, which might >> have three or even four bytes per character. In that case, if the >> string you were copying was composed of characters with the following >> number of bytes: >> >> <1><1><1><1><1><1><1><3> >> >> And you called StrNCopy(dst, string, 9), then what StrNCopy would do >> is copy the first seven bytes, and pad the remaining two bytes with >> nulls.
[snip] >FYI...according to the PHP reference manuals, a UTF-8 character can be >up to 6 bytes long....I would assume this is a UTF-8 attribute rather >than something to do with PHP The reference manual is wrong. The Unicode Standard Version 3.0 clearly states (page 47 in the printed version) that UTF-8 is the Unicode Transformation Format that serializes a Unicode scalar value as a sequence of one to four bytes. The confusion probably comes from various implementations (primarily Oracle) that encode Unicode scalar values > 0x0FFFF as a surrogate pair (two 16-bit Unicode values), where each Unicode value requires three bytes in UTF-8. I think they were pushing for this to be called "UTF-8S". -- Ken -- Ken Krugler TransPac Software, Inc. <http://www.transpac.com> +1 530-470-9200 -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
