From Roger.Strandberg at seb.se  Thu Jul  2 10:04:45 2026
From: Roger.Strandberg at seb.se (Roger.Strandberg@seb.se)
Date: Fri Jul  3 08:58:57 2026
Subject: [xsde-users] XSD/e validates string length using byte count
 (strlen/.size()), not Unicode character count
Message-ID: <GVZP280MB0169F716412202F347124DE6F9F52@GVZP280MB0169.SWEP280.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Hi All,


We have encountered that in ISO20022 and PACS008 the nm tag is 140 characters and using Polish ? and ? , those get counted as 2 chars.


  *   ? (U+00F3) = 2 bytes
  *   ? (U+0142) = 2 bytes

XSD:
<xs:simpleType name="Max140Text">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
        <xs:minLength value="1"/>
        <xs:maxLength value="140"/>
    </xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>


As I see it this is a bug in string-common.cxx as it uses size_t n = str.size(); and not Unicode character count.
Should not XSD/e use something like:
size_t n = 0;
for (size_t i = 0; i < str.size(); ) {
    unsigned char c = str[i];
    if (c < 0x80) i += 1;
    else if ((c & 0xE0) == 0xC0) i += 2;
    else if ((c & 0xF0) == 0xE0) i += 3;
    else i += 4;
    ++n;
}

Best Regards

Roger Strandberg
Techdev, International Systems 1
Technology
SEB

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From boris at codesynthesis.com  Mon Jul  6 08:32:02 2026
From: boris at codesynthesis.com (Boris Kolpackov)
Date: Mon Jul  6 08:32:16 2026
Subject: [xsde-users] XSD/e validates string length using byte count
	(strlen/.size()), not Unicode character count
In-Reply-To: <GVZP280MB0169F716412202F347124DE6F9F52@GVZP280MB0169.SWEP280.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
References: <GVZP280MB0169F716412202F347124DE6F9F52@GVZP280MB0169.SWEP280.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
Message-ID: <boris.20260706142150@codesynthesis.com>

Hi Roger,

Thanks for the report. I think you are right, this is a bug and I've filed
it here: https://github.com/codesynthesis-com/xsde/issues/2

Will aim to fix for the next release of XSD/e.

Best regards,
Boris