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Re: Question about mb_metastrlen

On 27 October 2015 at 10:10, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:31:02 +0100
> The function you're talking about is for a string length, not a
> character length.  num_in_char counts the number of trailing bytes that
> didn't form a wide character.  Each will be treated as a single byte.
> So each counts 1 for the length of the string.

There is the condition:
            if (ret == MB_INVALID) {

Isn't it that if there are many trailing bytes that do not form a
character, they will be catched into MB_INVALID, and only last
"character" can stay as not yet complete?

Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski
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