Re: [BUG] ${#var} returns length in bytes, not characters

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martijn Dekker <martijn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> dash does not expand the length in characters; it expands the length in
> bytes instead. That is invalid for locales that include multi-byte
> characters, such as the now ubiquitous UTF-8 set.

dash doesn't handle locales at all.

Cheers,
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