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		pieter on Feb 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad It leaks through in some places. For example, len(u'\U0001D310') (from the Tai Xuan Jing Symbols) returns 1 on 32-bit wide pythons, and returns 2 on the default 16-bit wide builds.

Locke1689 on Feb 8, 2011 [–]

Nope, that's the correct behavior. Run len on the UTF encode and you'll get the expected result.

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