number of characters in UTF-8

[maya fur]

Hi,
I'm trying to find the number of chars (letters) in a word that is in UTF-8 format - not the number of bytes.
String.length() returns the length in UTF-16 format.
For most words the simple String.length() works, but for example:
String s = "文書の場合";
The length (s.length()) is 9.

I using the String constructer String(byte[]�bytes, String�charsetName), but the length method is still UTF-16.


Thanks

[Michael Lloyd Lee]

Can you post the string as unicode escapes? (i.e. \uxxxx)

How about: toCharArray().length?

[Ulf Dittmer]

This article is highly relevant to your question.

[maya fur]

Thanks you very much for the article! It was very helpful!