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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) (tonsky.me)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If we're being really pedantic, the last part in Korean is counted with different units:

  • 각 as precomposed character: 1자 (unit ja for CJK characters)
  • 각 (ㄱㅏㄱ) as decomposable components: 3자모 (unit jamo for Hangul components)

So we could have separate implementations of length() where we count such cases with different criteria... But I wouldn't expect non-speakers of Korean know all of this.

Plus, what about Chinese characters? Are we supposed to count 人 as one but 仁 as one (character) or two (radicals)? It gets only more complicated.