To anyone interested in this discussion, you may want to follow the issue here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/770
There I wrote the reason I want this functionality. The main reason is that I want to do as much as possible in Nix, instead of pushing stuff to a building script. Best, Erik On 2016-01-11 23:29, Erik Rybakken wrote: > Hi, > > In nix, when finding the length of a string containing non-ascii characters, > the number of bytes in the representation is returned, instead of the actual > number of characters: > > > nix-repl> builtins.stringLength "å" > > 2 > > Is there any way to get the number of characters instead, or does this > require changes in the core language? > > Best Regards, > Erik Rybakken > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
