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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: motif XmString to char
Keywords: motif, XmString,char
Message-ID: <889@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 90 22:58:23 GMT
References: <2863@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <2863@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> sohara@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (suzanne ohara) writes:
>I am learning to program with motif and have run into what
>seems a very simple problem. I have not been able to find
>a way to convert a motif XmString to a regular C char string.
>Is this possible? I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
   No, it should NOT be possible, as XmString may contain
   multibyte characters, i.e. potential imbeded NUL characters.

   In practice, however, you could do it assuming that you only
   have 8bit characters, or your multibyte characters don't have
   any NUL bytes ...

   Then, also note there is XConsortium document defining Compound
   Strings, and that is what XmString (in my naivity) should become
   (but I am not sure it already happened).

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