Idiom #169 String length
Assign to the integer n the number of characters of the string s.
Make sure that multibyte characters are properly handled.
n can be different from the number of bytes of s.
			local utf8={}
function utf8.bytes(str,index)
 local byte=string.byte(str,index)
 local ret
 if     byte==nil then ret=0
 elseif byte<128  then ret=1
 elseif byte<192  then ret=2
 elseif byte<224  then ret=3
 else                  ret=4
 end
 return ret
end
function utf8.len(str)
 local count=0
 local fini=#str+1
 local index=1
 while index~=fini do
  count=count+1
  index=index+utf8.bytes(str,index)
 end
 return count
end
local n=utf8.len(s)