[Freeassociation-devel] UTF-8 strings gets truncated

[Mahesh Kumar]

Hi,

I found this problem when I was testing with Japanese strings.
In icalparser the function strstriplt splits or truncates a UTF8 string
incorrectly.
BTW it happens only in the Release builds.

Here is the sample hex bytes of an UTF-8 string I used for SUMMARY attribute
0x8e, 0xe4, 0xa5, 0xbd, 0xe5, 0xbb, 0xbd, 0xe6, 0x88, 0x83, 0xe7, 0x9d,
0x83, 0xe3, 0x9b, 0xb9, 0xe8, 0xa8, 0xbd, 0xe6, 0x98, 0xbd, 0xe3, 0xbb
Original String: 莠亥ョ壻ス懈・繝・せ繝茨シ托シ・

strstriplt truncates two characters at the beginning and one character at
the end.

After investigation I figured the isspace function is returning true for
these characters.

I have attached the fix I figured for this issue , which basically is to
type cast the input
parameter to isspace function to "unsigned char".

Thanks,
Mahesh
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