Re: String conversions

[Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>]

> Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In looking at various patches for more accurately sizing the required
> buffer needed for conversions to UTF-8, the following question came up
> more than once.
> 
> Functions which do string copying often null terminate the target
> string (single byte of \0), and size strings one byte larger than
> their string name (for UCS-2 this does not work since the null
> termination is two bytes). � Are there local nls codepages in Linux
> kernel which require double null termination (e.g. DBCS asian code
> pages), and if so how do you tell which ones require "double null
> termination?"

A look at fs/nls and supported charsets suggests that the linux kernel
does not support a pure double-byte charsets. Some of the supported east
asian charsets seem to be a superset of ASCII (for e.g TIS 620, Big5)
and only non-ASCII characters are expressed in 2 bytes.


Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman