On 2/19/12 5:07 PM, John Kearney wrote:
> Can somebody explain to me what u32tochar is trying to do?
>
> It seems like dangerous code?
>
> from the context i'm guessing it trying to make a hail mary pass at
> converting utf-32 to mb (not utf-8 mb)
Pretty much. It's a big-endian representation of a 32-bit integer
as a character string. It's what you get when you don't have iconv
or iconv fails and the locale isn't UTF-8. It may not be useful,
but it's predictable. If we have a locale the system doesn't know
about or can't translate, there's not a lot we can do.
Chet
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