Re: [vim 9 script] String indexing behavior different from legacy Vim

On 2023-06-03, Lifepillar <lifepillar@lifepillar.me> wrote:
> Legacy Vim script:
>
> let text = 'àbc'
> echo text[2]
>
> Result: 'b'
>
> Vim 9 script:
>
> const text = 'àbc'
> echo text[2]
>
> Result: 'c'
>
> Is the different behavior (counting chars vs bytes?) intentional?

Mmh, even strpart(), which is supposed to count bytes, gives the same
result:

echo strpart(text, 2, 1)

is 'b' in legacy Vim, but 'c' in Vim 9 script.

Life.

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