Re: date zh_TW.Big5 +%P

[Abel Cheung]

On 5/6/05, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> > About detection of multibyte string, is there any
> > better method than retrieving LC_TIME and
> > lookup the charset inside a predefined array
> > containing known multibyte charset?
> 
> mblen tells you how many bytes a characters has.  Also MB_CUR_MAX gives
> the maximum number of bytes of the characters in the current locale's
> charset.

Yes, I have been silly. Thanks a lot for info from both of you;
sincerely I know almost nothing about programming that
needs to handle multibyte strings.

This means determining the value of mblen() or mbrlen() > 1
for all chars in am_pm, if this is true then the string is multibyte
and don't impose tolower/toupper on it?

Abel

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