[UTF-8] Aspell and UTF-8/Unicode

[Elias Martenson]

m=C3=A5n 2004-02-16 klockan 18.58 skrev Noah Levitt:

> >   - length of utf-8 strings
>=20
> g=5Futf8=5Fstrlen() returns the number of characters in the
> string. Use plain old strlen() for the number of bytes.
>=20
> >   - length of the current utf-8 character
>=20
> g=5Futf8=5Ffind=5Fnext=5Fchar() does an equivalent operation.
> g=5Futf8=5Fnext=5Fchar() is also useful.

What are the advantages of these compared to the standard libc calls?

Regards

Elias M=C3=A5rtenson