Martin J. Dürst wrote: > On 2009/10/27 19:08, Greg Wilkins wrote: > >> Existing UTF-8 to character conversions will error if they get a partial >> multipart character, > > No, good transcoding libraries have options that say what to do in such > a case. Iconv is definitely an example, String#encode in Ruby is another. and such libraries make working out the length in bytes very simple. So if you have a good library, then the argument that the byte length can't be known is not applicable. regards
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