On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 18:39 +0100, tim vets wrote:
how about [list fromsymbol], [list split] and [list tosymbol]?
This works as long as your characters are strictly ASCII. You get "interesting" results when cutting in the middle of an multi-byte unicode character. When the left-hand part of [list split] contains multi-byte unicode characters, the displayed string is shorter than what you intended.
Roman