2 * @brief truncate a utf-8 string, ideally without splitting words.
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23 #include "utf8truncate.h"
29 utf8_truncate(string
& value
, string::size_type maxlen
)
31 if (value
.size() <= maxlen
) return false;
33 string::size_type len
= maxlen
+ 1;
34 // Skip back to (and past) the last whitespace. We start one past the
35 // length we want to correctly handle the case where a word ends exactly
37 while (len
&& static_cast<unsigned char>(value
[len
- 1]) > 32) --len
;
38 while (len
&& static_cast<unsigned char>(value
[len
- 1]) <= 32) --len
;
40 // If the first word is too long, truncate it.
43 // If the bytes of a UTF-8 character span the maxlen position we need
44 // to remove some extra bytes to avoid leaving a partial UTF-8
47 // We start at the byte after the cut point. If it's a continuation
48 // byte we step back until we find the start of the character and
49 // truncate right before that.
50 while (len
&& (value
[len
] & 0xc0) == 0x80) --len
;