[Debburn-devel] What can I assume about libc?

[Albert Cahalan]

On 10/3/06, Lorenz Minder <lminder at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On 10/2/06, Lorenz Minder <lminder at gmx.net> wrote:

> Yes. The problem is, if we have UTF-8 strings internally, it is a real
> pain to do string processing with them; even replacing a given character
> with another becomes a major pain. It seems much easier to use
> mbstowcs() and then process these strings, and convert when we write
> them to files. IOW, I'm not against writing UTF-8 to files, but I don't
> think it is a reasonable in-core representation of strings if you want
> to do anything at all with them.

Assuming we still care about Windows, mbstowcs() won't do.
I'm fairly sure that you end up with a mix of 2-byte and 4-byte
characters. Custom functions may be best:

utf8_to_u32
u32_to_utf8
u32_to_utf16
utf16_to_u32

> > (then again, kicking mkisofs out might be a better move)
>
> I think mkisofs is a pretty important program; in fact it is currently
> my main reason for being interested in this project.

I also think it is a pretty important program. It doesn't need
to ship with the CD burning drivers though. Perhaps you would
like to maintain it yourself, without the rest of the stuff.