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> On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 10:23:17PM +0200, David J. Slate wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> As applied to strings # does, returning unambiguously the length 
>> of the string.

It returns the length of the string in bytes which is usually not the same as the number of code points or glyphs.

Tony.
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