updated for version 7.0140
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
index b412734..bc03f03 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*eval.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Aug 23
+*eval.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Aug 31
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -4081,12 +4081,12 @@
*strlen()*
strlen({expr}) The result is a Number, which is the length of the String
- {expr} in bytes. If you want to count the number of
- multi-byte characters use something like this: >
+ {expr} in bytes.
+ If you want to count the number of multi-byte characters (not
+ counting composing characters) use something like this: >
:let len = strlen(substitute(str, ".", "x", "g"))
-
-< Composing characters are not counted.
+<
If the argument is a Number it is first converted to a String.
For other types an error is given.
Also see |len()|.