The length of strings vs. # of chars vs. sizeof

[Rainer Deyke]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> Strings are just arrays of code units.  Their length is the number of
>> elements (i.e. code units) they contain, just like other arrays.  A code
>> point may comprise multiple code units, and a logical character may
>> comprise multiple code points.  The latter is true even with
>> dchar/utf-32.
>>
>     So, in UTF-8, length is the number of bytes in the string and sizeof
> is 8 (on 32-bits systems).

Yes.


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