LGB> | Sorry, I don't understand. The length of the string U+0065 U+0301 LGB> | certainly is 2, regardless of how the rendering engine displays this. LGB> | Of course, the rendering engine should render it as "é" because U+0301 LGB> | is a combining character, but the string length is still 2.
LGB> Not if I want to count the number of characters in the document. That's true. The problem is that you probably need the "real" string length information anyway for string operations. So if there's a need for a figure for number of characters in the document excluding combining characters, but including some combining characters (like Arabic or Hebrew vowels), one will need a secondary function. Cheers - Philipp Reichmuth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- With searching comes loss / and the presence of absence / The data, not found
