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		arcticbull on June 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019) I agree with everything you said, I think I'm just trying to reconcile that with the top of thread saying python was the most correct because it was returning '7 code points' and that 'UTF-whatever is an implementation detail' But 7 is not the number of code points/USVs - that's the number of UTF-16 code units. The string is 5 USVs. If UTF-whatever is an implementation detail, wouldn't the correct answer to length be 5? What am I missing haha.

hgs3 on June 2, 2023 [–]

Python does return 5. JavaScript returns 7. Python is returning the number of code points, JavaScript is returning the number of UTF-16 code units.

arcticbull on June 2, 2023 | [–]

There's my mistake. Thank you. Flipped them in my head, it's ben a long day.

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