From 091652376323a54a55327d114c0da994ec859d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Filippos Karapetis
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:56:06 +0000
Subject: Added an explanatory comment for commit #39368

svn-id: r39369
---
 engines/sci/engine/kstring.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'engines/sci/engine')

diff --git a/engines/sci/engine/kstring.cpp b/engines/sci/engine/kstring.cpp
index c637826d22..1bcde36a9c 100644
--- a/engines/sci/engine/kstring.cpp
+++ b/engines/sci/engine/kstring.cpp
@@ -414,6 +414,10 @@ static int is_print_str(char *str) {
 	if (len == 0) return 1;
 
 	while (*str) {
+		// We're ANDing the string with 0xFF to prevent a situation
+		// where MSVC could sometimes falsely parse the character as
+		// multibyte/Unicode, thereby overflowing an assertion inside
+		// isprint(). This occurs after the intro of LSL5, for example.
 		if (isprint((*str & 0xFF))) printable++;
 		str++;
 	}
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