Re: multi-byte awareness for formatted_print.c

On 10/10/01, "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > <warning> > I wasn't following this thread, just an out-of-context comment > </warning> OK :-) > That shouldn't be a problem. str++ advances the address according to the > type of its base... But a multi-byte character can be 1 or more bytes, depending on the character and the encoding, so you can't just say each character is 2 bytes long unless you are sure that the encoding says that each character is always 2 bytes long. It's great isn't it? In my experience with Japanese encodings you get into all kinds of problems if you are not careful. To be able to use str++ in that way, we would need to convert to string into an appropriate wide character format before working with it, and then convert it back afterwards. --Wez.