How to find number of characters in a unicode string?

[Preben Randhol]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:29:20 +0200
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:

> Yes and you already seem to know the answer:  Decode the byte string
> and use `len()` on the unicode string.

.decode("utf-8") did the trick. Thanks!

Preben