Internationalization bug?? [Python 2.2.1, RedHat 8.0, Swedish]

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Watson wrote:

> If len() returns the number of bytes, what can Urban Anjar use to get the
> number of characters?

len() on a string of bytes returns the number of bytes.

to get the number of characters, make sure you're using len() on a
string containing characters.

to convert between byte buffers and strings of characters, use the
encode/decode methods, or the unicode constructor.

    chars = unicode(bytes, encoding)
    bytes = chars.encode(encoding)
    chars = bytes.decode(encoding)

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