Re: {Spam?} Re: [Help-smalltalk] [Q] Unicode String?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Chun Sungjin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> main problem is that for example, if I did create an instance of 
> string like this;
>
> a := 'Some MultiByte Encoded String'.
>
> then
>
> a size
>
> does not answer correct length of string.
Well, strlen does not in C, too.  You need mbrlen, and #size is more 
like strlen than mbrlen.

Also, the result heavily depends on the chosen character set.  If we 
want to have #utf8Size, that's fine.  But #size should be the number of 
*bytes*, not of characters.

I'm seeing now if I can add an EncodedStream method that extracts 
Unicode characters.  Then what you wanted would be something like

   (EncodedStream wordsOn: 'some string') contents size

for which, of course, we can add a utility method.

Paolo