Is al_ustr_get's pos parameter a byte offset?

no-reply@allegro.cc (axilmar) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:32:28 +0000

Is the parameter 'pos' of the function 'al_ustr_get' a byte offset or is it a character index?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Elias) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:26:54 +0000

Byte offset. You can use al_ustr_offset to find it from the character index.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Peter Wang) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:51:13 +0000

I can't believe that whole page doesn't mention "code unit" once. Who wrote that?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Elias) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:44:17 +0000

It's auto-generated from the official documentation (which was not intended to be split per-function) I think.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Peter Wang) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:37:29 +0000

Just kidding, I wrote most of the text on the UTF-8 routines page. The whole manual should be designed to be split into functions since we generate man pages from it as well. But that's fine, it's an iterative process.