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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Simple Question Post 13965 by Kelam_Magnus on Friday 25th of January 2002 01:22:44 PM
Old 01-25-2002
What is the purpose of your input?

Also, what flavor of UNIX is this on?

I believe that a file begins with a newline char or some other unseen chars.

I had trouble in a script one time trying to test for 0 bytes because of bogus chars in the file even though it shows 0 bytes from an "ls filename" output.

Weird...
 

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FcUtf8Len(3)															      FcUtf8Len(3)

NAME
FcUtf8Len - count UTF-8 encoded chars SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lfontconfig [ library... ] #include <fontconfig.h> FcBool FcUtf8Len (FcChar8 *src, int len, int *nchar, int *wchar); DESCRIPTION
Counts the number of Unicode chars in len bytes of src. Places that count in nchar. wchar contains 1, 2 or 4 depending on the number of bytes needed to hold the largest unicode char counted. The return value indicates whether src is a well-formed UTF8 string. VERSION
Fontconfig version 2.5.0 ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWfontconfig | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |See XInitThreads(3X11) | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ 13 November 2007 FcUtf8Len(3)
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