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On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:40:28AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > Yes, it seems that the code once again assumed ASCII encoding, the raw
> > > & 0x80 tells us that. I actually already had changed that to be
> > > abstracted behind a macro, UTF8_IS_CONTINUED(). Next we'll need to
> > > define these macros in EBCDIC correctly (mapping to ASCII and back).
> > > Simon Cozens already had some patches to this effect a few weeks back,
> > > I'll go dig.
> > >
> > Yes I'm working on an EBCDIC environment.
> > In any case function uv_to_utf8 adds a NULL character at the end of the
> > destination buffer and as it is handling the string backwards, last
> > character will be overwritten.
> > So I thing that my patch should be applied.
>
> Yes, that's true.
My only gripe about the patch itself as such is that it calls strncpy().
strncpy() is not used in the Perl core code, there's actually only one spot,
in utf8.c.
> > > > > would fail for me?
> > > > >
> > > > > BTW, the patch arrived here line-wrapped. I fixed that manually and
> > > > > applied with -l. Maybe you should resubmit as an attachment and
> > > > > include your perl -V.
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