> I think you want to use codePointCount() to count the Unicode code points. > length() returns Unicode code units. > > As http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html explains: > > In the J2SE API documentation, Unicode code point is used for character > values in the range between U+0000 and U+10FFFF, and Unicode code unit is > used for 16-bit char values that are code units of the UTF-16 encoding.
So you would like to contribute a function codePointCount to Python's standard library? Go ahead. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
