Re: slang: UTF-8 and strlen

[Eugene Epshteyn <eugene_epshteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

This makes perfect sense.

--Eugene

--- "John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hence, I propose the
> following for slang v2:
> 
>   strlen: returns the number of characters (not bytes!) in a string.
>           Any combining characters will not be included in the sum.
> 
> In addition, I propose two new functions:
> 
>   strbytelen: Returns the number of bytes in a string.
> 
>   strcharlen: Returns the number of chars in a string, counting the
>               combining characters.
> 


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Eugene Epshteyn
Eugene_Epshteyn@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.epshteyn.net

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