[ Replying a little randomly to this message. ] Randall Sawyer:
3) Wouldn't it be helpful to keep track of how many code points
("characters")are stored in the GString - a number which may be less than
the value of GString.len - without needing to call g_utf8_strlen() each time
to find out?
IMnsHO, NO, definitely not. To the people who want this feature: why do you want it? The octet length is necessary to copy the string, store it in a file, send it to network. But what use is the number of Unicode code points? Or their index in the string? In my experience, the almost-only relevant treatment to an Unicode string is to walk over, character by character, applying parsing or typographic algorithms. Knowing how many code points, or even graphemes, were in a given span or the whole string is almost always irrelevant. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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