lib: Update libs to use correctly ascii and code_point

[nit.git] / lib / core / text / native.nit

diff --git a/lib/core/text/native.nit b/lib/core/text/native.nit
index 11c8d34..4028ea0 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/core/text/native.nit
+++ b/lib/core/text/native.nit
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import math
 
 redef class Byte
        # Gives the length of the UTF-8 char starting with `self`
-       private fun u8len: Int do
+       fun u8len: Int do
                if self & 0b1000_0000u8 == 0u8 then
                        return 1
                else if self & 0b1110_0000u8 == 0b1100_0000u8 then
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ extern class NativeString `{ char* `}
                return ns_i
        end
 
-       # Gets the byte index of char at position `n` in UTF-8 String
+       # Gets the char index of byte at position `n` in a UTF-8 String
        #
        # `char_from` and `byte_from` are cached values to seek from.
        #
@@ -173,4 +173,16 @@ extern class NativeString `{ char* `}
                if length_of_char_at(stpos) >= (endpos - stpos + 1) then return pos
                return endpos
        end
+
+       # Number of UTF-8 characters in `self` between positions `from` and `to`
+       fun utf8_length(from, to: Int): Int do
+               var st = from
+               var lst = to
+               var ln = 0
+               while st <= lst do
+                       st += length_of_char_at(st)
+                       ln += 1
+               end
+               return ln
+       end
 end