sprintf for utf8 formated characters
 

Anyone know if the standard sprintf supports utf8 characters that
extend beyond the normal ascii characters?

Thanks!

Re: sprintf for utf8 formated characters
 

On Apr 14, 2:39 pm, Michal Nazarewicz <min...@tlen.pl> wrote:
> Mandrago...@gmail.com writes:
> > Anyone know if the standard sprintf supports utf8 characters that
> > extend beyond the normal ascii characters?
>
> That depends on what you mean by "support". If you do thing like:
>
> sprintf(buf, "%s", some_string);
>
> (but never do that unless you are sure buf has enough space) or
> something along the lines of:
>
> sprintf(buf, format, arg1, arg2 /* ... */);
>
> (of course be sure format is valid and buf has enough space) and all
> strings are UTF-8 encoded you'll get UTF-8 encoded string in the end.
> This is guaranteed because UTF-8 is designed in such a way that NUL
> bytes never occur in sequences encoding other characters.
>
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Thanks for the reply.

What is still left unanswered is whether I can put utf-8 strings (ie
they have characters that take up to 4 bytes of space) and sprint f
that into a string without screwing up the byts of data. So something
like this:

unsigned int myVar= 0xDB0;

convertMyVarToUTF8(myVar);

char buff[512];

sprintf( buff, "Long string with %u", myVar);

is there a legitimate UTF-8 string in buff at this point?

Thanks!

Mandragon

Re: sprintf for utf8 formated characters
 

On 15 avr, 23:02, Mandrago...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2:39 pm, Michal Nazarewicz <min...@tlen.pl> wrote:

[...]
> What is still left unanswered is whether I can put utf-8 strings (ie
> they have characters that take up to 4 bytes of space) and sprint f
> that into a string without screwing up the byts of data. So something
> like this:

> unsigned int myVar= 0xDB0;

> convertMyVarToUTF8(myVar);

> char buff[512];

> sprintf( buff, "Long string with %u", myVar);

> is there a legitimate UTF-8 string in buff at this point?

If the native encoding of narrow character strings is ASCII, or
an encoding which uses ASCII for its lower 128 code points, yes.
Because "%u" will only generated characters in the range
[0-9a-f], and all of those characters have the same encoding in
ASCII and in UTF-8.

However, I suspect that the function convertMyVarToUTF8 is
supposed to do something. But I don't see what, and I don't see
what it could do which would affect the results here.

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