In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Preben Randhol wrote:
> If I use len() on a string containing unicode letters I get the number
> of bytes the string uses. This means that len() can report size 6 when
> the unicode string only contains 3 characters (that one would write by
> hand or see on the screen). Is there a way to calculate in characters
> and not in bytes to represent the characters.
Yes and you already seem to know the answer: Decode the byte string and
use `len()` on the unicode string.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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