are you sure you're using unicode objects? len(u'\uffff') == 1 the encodings module should help you turn '\xff\xff' into u'\uffff'.
Preben Randhol wrote: > Hi > > 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. > > The reason for asking is that PyGTK needs number of characters to set > the width of Entry widgets to a certain length, and it expects viewable > characters and not number of bytes to represent them. > > > Thanks in advance > > > Preben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
