It might encourage people to use UTF8 internally, and that _would_ be horribly bad... :-/

/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)

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2003-09-24 12:45: Subject: utf8_char_index

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These are the functions I use now:

array(int)|int utf8_byte_index_to_char_number(array(int)|int c,string utf8) { if (arrayp(c)) return map(c,utf8_byte_index_to_char_number,utf8); return c && strlen(utf8_to_string(utf8[..c-1])); }

array(int)|int char_number_to_utf8_byte_index(array(int)|int c,string wide) { if (arrayp(c)) return map(c,char_number_to_utf8_byte_index,wide); return c && strlen(string_to_utf8(wide[..c-1])); }

...if someone feels like writing them in C and adding them to String or something it would probably not be horribly bad. :)

/ Mirar