Re: Unicode support

[Markus Plail]

Hi Pawel!

* Pawel Kot writes:
>>>>address@hidden 27 September 2002 09:48:51 >>>
>>I thought the same. And with my tests with Hu's test app wctomb always
>>returned 1 not 2.
>>
>>So I throw the following code into the ring ;-)
>>
>>void char_decode_unicode(unsigned char* dest, const unsigned char* src, int 
>>len)
>>{
>>int i;
>>
>>for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>>wctomb(dest + strlen(dest), (src[i * 2] << 8) | src[(i * 2) + 1]);
>>return;
>>}
>>
>>Works with both my 6210 folders and Hu's test app. 

>I think it won't work. Not sure, but I think it has the current
>semantics.  The whole purpose of this patch is that wide character may
>be more then 2 bytes wide (for chinese characters, 2 bytes are
>sufficient for all european languages I think).

Why wouldn't it support wider characters? wctomb adds them to the end
of dest. If it's 4 Bytes it adds four bytes. The version now in CVS
just discards wider characters.

regards
Markus