How to find number of characters in a unicode string?
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
bj_666 at gmx.net
Fri Sep 29 04:11:34 EDT 2006
In <efija1$357$1 at lust.ihug.co.nz>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <pan.2006.09.18.20.29.20.510034 at gmx.net>, Marc 'BlackJack'
> Rintsch wrote:
>
>> In <20060918221814.08625ea2.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news at pvv.org>,
>> Preben Randhol wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to calculate in characters
>>> and not in bytes to represent the characters.
>>
>> Decode the byte string and use `len()` on the unicode string.
>
> Hmmm, for some reason
>
> len(u"C\u0327")
>
> returns 2.
Okay, decode and normalize and then use `len()` on the unicode string.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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