> On 25 Feb 2019, at 14:09, i.koptelov <ivan.koptelov@tarantool.org> wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2019, at 15:59, n.pettik <korablev@tarantool.org> wrote:
>>> On 20 Feb 2019, at 22:24, i.koptelov <ivan.koptelov@tarantool.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 20 Feb 2019, at 18:47, i.koptelov <ivan.koptelov@tarantool.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks to Alexander, I fixed my patch to use a function
>>>>> from icu to count the length of the string.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Changes:
>> 
>> Travis has failed. Please, make sure it is OK before sending the patch.
>> It doesn’t fail on my local (Mac) machine, so I guess this fail appears
>> only on Linux system.
> The problem is with badutf test (LENGTH tests).
> I’ve tried to reproduce the problem on my machine (using Docker with Ubuntu),
> but with no success. It seems like that different versions of icu4c lib
> provide different behavior of U8_FWD_1_UNSAFE.
> I propose to just inline these two lines (which we need) into
> some util function. Logic of these lines seems to be quite simple
> and obvious (after you read about utf8 on wikipedia), so I see no
> problem.
> 
> #define U8_COUNT_TRAIL_BYTES_UNSAFE(leadByte) \
>   (((uint8_t)(leadByte)>=0xc2)+((uint8_t)(leadByte)>=0xe0)+((uint8_t)(leadByte)>=0xf0))
> 
> #define U8_FWD_1_UNSAFE(s, i) { \
>   (i)+=1+U8_COUNT_TRAIL_BYTES_UNSAFE((s)[i]); \
> }

That’s I was talking about. But using the macros with the same
name as in utf library doesn’t look like a good pattern. Yep, you
can use define guards like:

#ifdef  U8_COUNT_TRAIL_BYTES_UNSAFE
#undef U8_COUNT_TRAIL_BYTES_UNSAFE
#endif
#define U8_COUNT_TRAIL_BYTES_UNSAFE

But I’d rather just give it another name.
Hence, taking into account comment below,
we are going to substitute SQL_SKIP_UTF8() with
implementation borrowed from icu library.

>>>> Furthermore, description says that it “assumes well-formed UTF-8”,
>>>> which in our case is not true. So who knows what may happen if we pass
>>>> malformed byte sequence. I am not even saying that behaviour of
>>>> this function on invalid inputs may change later.
>>> 
>>> In it's current implementation U8_FWD_1_UNSAFE satisfy our needs safely. Returned
>>> symbol length would never exceed byte_len.
>>> 
>>> static int
>>> utf8_char_count(const unsigned char *str, int byte_len)
>>> {
>>> 	int symbol_count = 0;
>>> 	for (int i = 0; i < byte_len;) {
>>> 		U8_FWD_1_UNSAFE(str, i);
>>> 		symbol_count++;
>>> 	}
>>> 	return symbol_count;
>>> }
>>> 
>>> I agree that it is a bad idea to relay on lib behaviour which may
>>> change lately. So maybe I would just inline these one line macros?
>>> Or use my own implementation, since it’s more efficient (but less beautiful)
>> 
>> Nevermind, let's keep it as is.
>> I really worry only about the fact that in other places SQL_SKIP_UTF8
>> is used instead. It handles only two-bytes utf8 symbols, meanwhile
>> U8_FWD_1_UNSAFE() accounts three and four bytes length symbols.
>> Can we use everywhere the same pattern?
> Yes, I think, we can.

Ok, then will be waiting for updates.