John Cowan 'scripted it'
> > At least in UTF-8 you can just count bytes <0x80 to count characters.
> Make that 0xC0.
No, it's easy, but not quite that easy.
Unicode code-points up to U+007F are represented as 8-bit bytes with the
same value, so counting bytes <0x80 gives you the number of US-ASCII
characters. Characters above U+007F are represented with multiple bytes,
the first >= 0xC0, the trailing bytes are all >= 0x80.
So to count characters, one way is to count all bytes less <= 0x7F or >=
0xC0.
Regards
~Rob
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Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
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