Doug Ewell wrote: > Depends on what "processing" you are talking about. Just to cite the > most obvious case, passing a non-ASCII, UTF-8 string to byte-oriented > strlen() will fail dramatically.
Why? The purpose of strlen() is counting the number of *bytes* needed to store a certain string, and this works just as fine for UTF-8 as it does for SBCS's or DBCS's. What strlen() cannot do is countîng the number of *characters* in a string. But who cares? I can imagine very few situations where someone such an information would be useful. _ Marco
