[ python-Bugs-1224047 ] Len too large with national characters

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Bugs item #1224047, was opened at 2005-06-20 12:52
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Henrik Winther Jensen (henrikwj)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Len too large with national characters

Initial Comment:
It looks as if len returns the lenght of an UTF8 string
even if the string
only contains ascii characters and default encoding is
ascii. This
means that if you insert f. ex. one danish ø in a
string. len will return a
value of 2. i.e.

a='ø'
print len(a)

gives:
2

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