[BRLTTY] Low-level BrlAPI questions

Aura Kelloniemi kaura.dev at sange.fi
Wed Apr 14 09:53:13 EDT 2021


On 2021-04-14 at 15:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
 > Sorry, since I'm at work and thus answering without looking much, I
 > missed that we already had the text length in textSize, which precisely
 > avoids the concerns with using strlen(). That's what I meant we could
 > use.

No problem.

Your suggestion still has the problem with multi-byte character encodings.
textSize holds the text size in bytes, not the number of code points. We
cannot dereve the lengths of the masks from that number.

-- 
Aura


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