John Machin wrote: > The answer is, "You can't", and the rationale would have to be that > nobody thought of a use case for counting the length of the UTF-8 form > but not creating the UTF-8 form. What is your use case?
Playing DA here, what if you need to send the byte-count on a server via a header, but need the utf8 representation for the actual data? Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
