On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 5:09 PM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

Is the length always the number of bytes? I was under the impression
it's the number of elements in case the value is a list/vector.

No, it's always bytes.  See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.690>, which is a handy summary, though hardly suitable as an explanation from scratch.



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