Re: [Vala] how can I get the number of unicode points in a string?

[琉璃井 <pharaoh456 163 com>]

From: "琉璃井" <pharaoh456 163 com>
Date: 2011-04-03 18:15:12
To: "Luca Bruno" <lethalman88 gmail com>
Subject: Re:Re: [Vala] how can I get the number of unicode points in a string?

At 2011-04-03 16:06:32，"Luca Bruno" <lethalman88 gmail com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:59:23PM +0800, 琉璃井 wrote:
> > I see that since 0.11.0 vala string.length returns number of bytes rather than that of unicode characters, 
> > and string[i] returns only one byte. I wonder how to deal with east Asian character strings.
>
> There are other methods in string that deal with utf8. For example
> char_count() and next_char().

thank you.
I find char_count(), get_char() and next_char() in gtk+ document.
Looks like these methods are not covered in vala tutorial and document.
Is there something like string[i] for index access to utf8? I didn't get it in docs.