Re: UTF-8 conversion is it safe to asume ?

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From: Eelke
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:06

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Asger Jørgensen schreef:
> Hi there
> 
> I use MultiByteToWideChar on my UTF-8 datastreams to 
> get the size of the buffer needed for converting, 
> that works just fine.
> 
> Sometimes the function returns the exact same size 
> as the original stream.
> Can I, in theses cases, assume that there is no 
> characters in the stream that needs to be converted ??
> And the go on processing the contents without 
> converting it ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Kind regards
> Asger

No, afaik there is no garantee that a 2 byte mbchar is the same as the 
widechar second the mbstring could also contain 3 byte and 1 byte 
mbchars which would definitly not be the same.

Eelke

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