Re: multi-byte awareness for formatted_print.c

<warning> I wasn't following this thread, just an out-of-context comment </warning> At 15:04 10-10-01, Wez Furlong wrote:

On 09/10/01, "Stig Sæther Bakken" <ssb@alltheweb.com> wrote:

A possible solution might be to code a generic multibyte string walking function in the mb_string extension that, given a point to a multi-byte string, returns the wide character at the current position and

advances the

pointer to the next wide-character

What about using a typedef or #define to define a "phpchar" type that is used in all such functions instead of "char"? Or would it be too inflexible to determine this at compile time? If only it was that simple; the problem is all the code that does str++ to advance through the string, so to make everything multi-byte safe, everything needs to change from str++ syntax to a multi-byte character advancing function/macro.

That shouldn't be a problem. str++ advances the address according to the type of its base... Zeev