On 13.08.2014 19:56, Paul Smith wrote:
On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 13:52 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
The POSIX standard says that ${#var} give the length of variable var
"in characters".  I can't find, offhand, a definition of "characters"
in the standard

D'oh!  It was only in the most obvious place:

         3.87 Character

         A sequence of one or more bytes representing a single graphic
         symbol or control code.

So it seems like bash has this right.


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