Epic Fail UCS-2 to UTF-8 conversion.

epic_fail_1.c

/* This is how a PhD holder thinks UCS-2 is converted to UTF-8 */
size_t gsm_convert_ucs2(const uint8_t *buf, size_t length, unsigned char *dest)
{
     size_t i;
     size_t j;
     for (i=0,j=0;i<length;i+=2) {
         if (buf[i] == 0)
             dest[j++] = buf[i+1];
         else {
             snprintf((char *)&dest[j], 256-j, "\\%02x%02x", buf[i], buf[i+1]);
             j+=5;
         }
     return j;
}