On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> Has counting characters any usefulness ? (other than doing statistics
> on number of chars)

You know I can't think of any ... even then there's some ambiguity as to
how composing characters should be counted.

Oh dear, I think I just added a fourth way of counting the length of a
UTF-8 string. :-(

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