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		banthar on March 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: String length functions for single emoji character... Defining string as a sequence of unicode codepoints is the mistake. Nobody ever cares about unicode codepoints. You either want the number of bytes or the width of the string on screen. UTF-32 codepoints waste space and give you neither.

stkdump on March 26, 2021 [–]

The width on the screen is in pixels. Yes, I find monospace fonts increasingly pointless.

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