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wbond on Nov 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The string type is broken

Oh, I see the issue here. You are expecting the string class to function via graphemes rather than characters. It should be possible to implement grapheme support since character support is there, but I imagine the reverse is not true.

A little googling turned this up. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-July/021...

tekacs on Nov 28, 2013 [–]

TL;DR of parent comment here for those skimming:

  x = 'o\u0308o\u0327'
  len(x) == 4
  x == "öo̧"
  x[:2] == "ö"
  x[2:] == "o̧"
  x[0] == x[2] == "o"

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