From: porkchop@invalid.foo   
      
   Well, I finally got bitten by Unicode.   
      
   Managed a work around, but I don't have enough experience   
   with Unicode to know just exactly what I'm doing...   
      
   #include    
   #include    
      
   static int utf8_width(const char *s) {   
       int w = 0;   
       const unsigned char *p = (const unsigned char *)s;   
      
       while (*p) {   
           if (*p < 0x80) { w++; p++; } // ASCII 1-byte   
           else if ((*p & 0xE0) == 0xC0) { w++; p += 2; } // 2-byte UTF-8   
           else if ((*p & 0xF0) == 0xE0) { w++; p += 3; } // 3-byte UTF-8   
           else if ((*p & 0xF8) == 0xF0) { w++; p += 4; } // 4-byte UTF-8   
           else { w++; p++; } // fallback   
       }   
      
       return w;   
   }   
      
   int main(void) {   
       const char *s = "élan";   
       printf("string:     %s\n", s);   
       printf("strlen:     %d\n", strlen(s)); // 4   
       printf("utf8_width: %d\n", utf8_width(s)); //5   
      
       return 0;   
   }   
      
   --   
   :wq   
   Mike Sanders   
      
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