[Python-Dev] [I18n-sig] Unicode strings: an alternative

[Tom Emerson]

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > Note that currently the len() method doesn't call strlen() at all.  It just
 > returns the ob_size field.  Presumably, with Just's proposal len() would
 > simply return ob_size/width.  If you used a variable width encoding, Just's
 > plan wouldn't work.  (I don't know anything about string encodings - is
 > UTF-8 variable width?)

Yes, technically from 1 - 6 bytes per character, though in practice
for Unicode it's 1 - 3.

    -tree

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