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Hello, I moved to china some 3 months ago and now that I'm starting to speak the language I'm also starting writing programs that have to operate on strings containing chinese character and i noticed that the string functions behaves in a strange way:
a="我叫李乐" print(string.sub(a,1,4)) -->我叫 print(string.sub(a,1,5)) -->我叫? print(string.len(a)) -->8 it seems that every chinese character is counted twice. That was not a problem since all the string functions behaves like this and their results are then compatible but I was interested in the reason behind this results, I guess it is somehow related to the code used to represent them but I'd like to know a precise explanation! Thank in advice for the help and sorry for the grammar mistakes i probably made but english is not my motherlanguage! p.s. I hope chinese character works fine on the mailing list or this post will look quite messed up... |