Possible Unicode Problems in Busybox - Collect and Discussion

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 13:52 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> The POSIX standard says that ${#var} give the length of variable var
> "in characters".  I can't find, offhand, a definition of "characters"
> in the standard

D'oh!  It was only in the most obvious place:

        3.87 Character
        
        A sequence of one or more bytes representing a single graphic
        symbol or control code.

So it seems like bash has this right.