Charles E Campbell Jr schrieb:
> Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>
>> On 9/19/07, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> let x='grün'
>>> echo "strlen(x)=".strlen(x)
>>>
>>> Thus, strlen() returns 5, not 4 as one might (sometimes) expect.
>>>
>>>
>> Here's what I have in one my base library:
>>
>> function now#mbc#len(str)
>> return strlen(substitute(a:str, '.', 'c', 'g'))
>> endfunction
>>
>> Which is incredibly much better than your solution ;-).
>>
>>
> Well, I came up with another solution, but it still isn't as good as
> yours! Shouldn't strlen() just handle this on its own? With C or C++,
> one may be wanting to use the output of strlen() to help with allocating
> memory to hold a string; I don't see any of that application with Vim.
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
The multibyte strlen() is even suggested/documented here:
:h strlen()
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