[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu/avstring: add av_get_utf8() function

[Lukasz M]

On 7 November 2013 22:03, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:

> On date Thursday 2013-10-03 01:23:47 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> > TODO: minor bump, APIchanges entry
> > ---
> >  libavutil/avstring.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  libavutil/avstring.h | 10 ++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
>
> Updated, with utility test included.
>
> Removed the flags argument since I'm not sure they are really useful.
>

+ * Read an UTF-8 character from buffer in *buf, and update *buf to point
to the
+ * next sequence after the parsed sequence.
+ * In case of invalid sequence, the point will be updated to the next
+ * character after the invalid sequence.
+ *
+ * @return >= 0 in case a sequence was successfully read, a negative
+ * value in case of invalid sequence
+ */
+int av_get_utf8(int32_t *code, const uint8_t **buf);

Feel free to ignore my comment, but function name is a bit misleading. In
fact you get a character decoded from utf8 stream. Function name suggests
opposite.