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		AlotOfReading 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Index, Count, Offset, Size It's the usual convention for systems programming languages and has been for decades, e.g. strlen() and std::string.length(). Byte length is also just more useful in many cases.

dataflow 57 days ago [–]

No, those are counts by definition, and byte lengths only by coincidence. Look at wcslen() and std::wstring::length().

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