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. :-(
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
--
Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/