<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body dir="ltr" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> أحمد المحمودي wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20090623141546.GB5585@ants.selfip.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:34:41PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">You are not allocating enough for outstr which is UTF8. Try allocating 4 bytes per character. That is, (size * 4). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks, but please notice that instr is also UTF8, and although it consists of 13 characters, yet its size, as returned by sizeof(instr), is 26 ! Anyways I tried your method, yet I still get the problem I mentioned with: base = FRIBIDI_PAR_RTL; That is printf(outstr); shows nothing ! </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Also, "sizeof(us)" doesn't return what you meant. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yes, I noticed that it returns the size of pointer type. Well, what I need is to know the size of the string after log2vis, because for example if I got the 2 characters ل & ا after each other, they get translated to a single character, hence the string size decreases. So how do I get the resulting string size ? </pre> </blockquote> Are you looking for the string size in characters or in bytes?<br> <br> Shachar<br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a> </pre> </body> </html>