Character iterating?

[sheredom]

Character iterating?

[sheredom]

Heyo @angelog!

So at present I've just done it manually when I've needed to - but I agree that is not the ideal approach for everyone.

I could forsee adding a function (something like):

void* some_utf8_str = ...;
long codepoint;
some_utf8_str = utf8codepoint(some_utf8_str, &codepoint);

And you could then iterate until codepoint was the null terminator ('\0'). Would that be of use to you?

[codecat]

That would be a helpful addition to the library, yeah.

I'm curious, how exactly were you doing it manually?

[sheredom]

Basically the run length of the utf8 codepoint is encoded by the pattern of the first bits of each byte. I was creating a long codepoint by concating multiple bytes together.

I think having a function to do this makes a lot of sense though, I'll work on it!

[codecat]

Ah, yeah it doesn't sound too practical to do it manually. Thanks! 👍

[sheredom]

Hey @angelog can you check out pull request #21 for me please? I've included an example of how to use it in the pull request too 😄

[sheredom]

I've merged #21, solving this issue.

[codecat]

I will play around with it later tonight. Thank you! 👍

[codecat]

Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier, I was pretty busy. Tried it last night, works wonderfully! Thank you :)