# It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7

<https://hsivonen.fi/string-length/>

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- Saved: June 7, 2023 (2023-06-08T01:02:01Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

I had no idea how divergent different languages report the length of a Unicode character to be. Wild!

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT258: Weekly Thing #258 / Vision, Strike, Reputation](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/258/), Briefly

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