Github user ueshin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1586#issuecomment-50554217
Hi, the helper `len()` is not needed.
What Hive's `Length` is doing is to calculate the number of code points,
which can be done by `String#codePointCount`.
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