In article <20090811183800.ge5...@const.famille.thibault.fr> you wrote: > Not necessarily. Any sane implementation should just use wchar_t
Which could be UTF16 and therefore still has complicatd length semantics. And even with UTF32 there are combining characters. Sadly. But the length could be defined in code units - its just a question how usefull it is. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org