On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Gregor Best <gbe_AT_ring0.de> wrote:
> I never read the actual docs of that function (a few glances at the
> manpage aside), and if it definitely says "count the number of bytes",
> fine. But intuitively, I would've thought it gives the length of a
> string, as in "how many letters appear on my screen if I printf()
> this?".
Plan 9 has utflen() for that purpose.
Also, how many characters appear depends on what encoding your
terminal is using. strlen() is absolute, and is probably more useful
in most contexts.
Received on Mon Mar 08 2010 - 16:03:59 UTC
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