Re: [PATCH 1/2] libgit.a: add some UTF-8 handling functions

From: Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 25, 2006, 04:03 UTC
Message-ID: <200612251003.55018.litvinov2004@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612222319230.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

> > > To me, characters are the symbols occupying one "column" each. Bytes
> > > are the 8-bit thingies that you usually use to encode the characters.

You can check man 3 wcwidth: wcwidth - determine columns needed for a wide character

We possible could convert utf-8 encoded string into wchar_t[] and use that function.

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