[Gambas-user] LEN()

[Norarg]

hi,

I get a bit strange results from the LEN()-function.
If there are characters like the German Umlaute in the string (äöüÄÖÜß),
the result just does not fit. It seems to me, that LEN("ä") gives back 2 
instead of 1,
is this possible?

I fill up a string with spaces for a more (or less) formatted simple 
text-file,
the columns separated with "|".

Using Tabs (chr(9)) gives me more work, and it would not solve this 
problem, because I still would have to ask for the string-lenght.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
regards
norarg