On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 13:25:08 UTC, nickles wrote: > Ok, if my understandig is wrong, how do YOU measure the length > of a string? Depends on how you define the "length" of a string. Doing that is surprisingly difficult once the full variety of Unicode code points comes into play, even if you ignore the question of encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, …). David