diff --git a/testdata/scad/misc/string-unicode.scad b/testdata/scad/misc/string-unicode.scad
index d8e3e5c9..1386d63d 100644
--- a/testdata/scad/misc/string-unicode.scad
+++ b/testdata/scad/misc/string-unicode.scad
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+//Test length reporting
+text_1bytes_len = "1234";
+text_2bytes_len = "ЛЛЛЛ";
+text_4bytes_len = "🂡🂱🃁🃑";
+
+echo( "text_1bytes_len = ", text_1bytes_len, " len = ", len(text_1bytes_len)  );
+echo( "text_2bytes_len = ", text_2bytes_len, " len = ", len(text_2bytes_len)  );
+echo( "text_4bytes_len = ", text_4bytes_len, " len = ", len(text_4bytes_len)  );
+
 //Test how well arrays of unicode string are accessed.
 
 texts_array = [
@@ -33,4 +42,3 @@ echo( "Past end of unicode only 4-byte ", text_4bytes[len(text_4bytes)]  );
 echo( "Past end of both 2-byte ", text_2bytes[ len(text_2bytes) * 2 ]   );
 echo( "Past end of both 4-byte ", text_4bytes[ len(text_4bytes) * 4 ]   );
 
-
diff --git a/tests/regression/echotest/string-unicode-expected.echo b/tests/regression/echotest/string-unicode-expected.echo
index b4b848fd..a1cd3bec 100644
--- a/tests/regression/echotest/string-unicode-expected.echo
+++ b/tests/regression/echotest/string-unicode-expected.echo
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+ECHO: "text_1bytes_len = ", "1234", " len = ", 4
+ECHO: "text_2bytes_len = ", "ЛЛЛЛ", " len = ", 4
+ECHO: "text_4bytes_len = ", "🂡🂱🃁🃑", " len = ", 4
 ECHO: "[", 0, "] = ", "DEADBEEF", " of len=", 8, ":"
 ECHO: "    [", 0, "]=", "D"
 ECHO: "    [", 1, "]=", "E"