There's a snippit for this in the output_message function of cbstream.rb. (This code has quote a few places where it does ugly hacks with character encodings, because it was written back when only ruby 1.8 existed. Nowadays we have ruby 1.9 which has a better system for handling strings with various encodings than perl.) It's not directly applicable here, but the principle is the same.

Assumes $str contains the decoded string. Then, after 

$str =~ /\A(.{0,383}[\x00-\xbf]|)/s or die;

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$1 should contain at most 384 bytes and not end with an incomplete utf-8 character.

Update: ikegami's right, the above regex is wrong. (I still believe the one in cbstream is right, but does something different.)

In reply to Re: limiting length of utf8 string in bytes by ambrus
in thread limiting length of utf8 string in bytes by pbijnens

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