Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #35181] Shortened menunames in tinymode not translated

[Byrial Jensen]

Den 27-12-2011 23:36, Tim Mann skrev:
>  > (copying the tranlated item names to a buffer, and zeroing a byte in
> it based on the board width
>  > through an emperically derived linear formula that worked for English
> before sending it to the X-server).
>
> If the item name is in UTF-8, doing that blindly can leave you with an
> invalid UTF-8 character at the end of the truncated string. In fact you
> might end up with no valid characters, just one invalid one.

Yes, as said before in this thread you have to use the C99 function 
mbtowc() or some library dedicated to handle multibyte char strings.