diff --git a/include/linguistic/misc.hxx b/include/linguistic/misc.hxx
index 57c7179a2007..a9a7d074d63d 100644
--- a/include/linguistic/misc.hxx
+++ b/include/linguistic/misc.hxx
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ LNG_DLLPUBLIC bool        IsUpper( const OUString &rText, sal_Int32 nPos, sal_In
 inline bool        IsUpper( const OUString &rText, LanguageType nLanguage )     { return IsUpper( rText, 0, rText.getLength(), nLanguage ); }
 LNG_DLLPUBLIC CapType capitalType(const OUString&, CharClass const *);
 
-LNG_DLLPUBLIC bool      HasDigits( const OUString &rText );
+LNG_DLLPUBLIC bool      HasDigits( std::u16string_view rText );
 LNG_DLLPUBLIC bool      IsNumeric( std::u16string_view rText );
 
 
diff --git a/linguistic/source/misc.cxx b/linguistic/source/misc.cxx
index 5c50af6f1946..f80a849116eb 100644
--- a/linguistic/source/misc.cxx
+++ b/linguistic/source/misc.cxx
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <unotools/localedatawrapper.hxx>
 #include <svtools/strings.hrc>
 #include <unotools/resmgr.hxx>
+#include <o3tl/string_view.hxx>
 
 #include <linguistic/misc.hxx>
 #include <linguistic/hyphdta.hxx>
@@ -625,14 +626,14 @@ const sal_uInt32 the_aDigitZeroes [] =
     0x0001D7CE  //1D7FF   ; Decimal # Nd  [50] MATHEMATICAL BOLD DIGIT ZERO..MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE DIGIT NINE
 };
 
-bool HasDigits( const OUString &rText )
+bool HasDigits( std::u16string_view rText )
 {
-    const sal_Int32 nLen = rText.getLength();
+    const sal_Int32 nLen = rText.size();
 
     sal_Int32 i = 0;
     while (i < nLen) // for all characters ...
     {
-        const sal_uInt32 nCodePoint = rText.iterateCodePoints( &i );    // handle unicode surrogates correctly...
+        const sal_uInt32 nCodePoint = o3tl::iterateCodePoints( rText, &i );    // handle unicode surrogates correctly...
         for (unsigned int nDigitZero : the_aDigitZeroes)   // ... check in all 0..9 ranges
         {
             if (nDigitZero > nCodePoint)