String length - Rosetta Code (via) Calculating the length of a string is surprisingly difficult once Unicode is involved. Here's a fascinating illustration of how that problem can be attached dozens of different programming languages. From that page: the string "J̲o̲s̲é̲"
("J\x{332}o\x{332}s\x{332}e\x{301}\x{332}"
) has 4 user-visible graphemes, 9 characters (code points), and 14 bytes when encoded in UTF-8.
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