Possible Unicode Problems in Busybox - Collect and Discussion

[Harald Becker]

Hi Denys !

>> 2) shell substitution ${#var}
>> Does this length operation shall give the number of bytes in var or the
>> number of characters (which may differ for multi byte characters, like
>> UTF-8).
>
> bash gives number of Unicode chars.
> I just fixed both ash and hush to do the same.

bash seams to be the only shell which does this. So is this a bash-ism?

... and "expr length $var" (upstream) still return the size in bytes not 
characters.

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Harald