Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List?

[Joshua Landau]

Basically, I think Twitter's broken.

For my full discusion on the matter, see:
http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1k2yrn/help_with_len_and_input_function_33/cbku5e8

Here's the first post of mine, ineffectually edited for this list:

"""
<strikethrough>The obvious solution [to getting the length of a tweet]
is wrong. Like, slightly wrong¹.</strikethrough>

Given tweet = b"caf\x65\xCC\x81".decode():

    >>> tweet
    'café'

But:

    >>> len(tweet)
    5

So the solution is:

    >>> import unicodedata
    >>> len(unicodedata.normalize("NFC", tweet))
    4

<strikethrough>Read twitter's commentary¹ for proof.</strikethrough>

<strikethrough>There are additional complications I'm trying to sort
out.</strikethrough>
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After further testing (I don't actually use Twitter) it seems the
whole thing was just smoke and mirrors. The linked article is a lie,
at least on the user's end.

On Linux you can prove this by running:

    >>> p = subprocess.Popen(['xsel', '-bi'], stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
    >>> p.communicate(input=b"caf\x65\xCC\x81")
    (None, None)

"café" will be in your Copy-Paste buffer, and you can paste it in to
the tweet-box. It takes 5 characters. So much for testing ;).

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¹ https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters#Definition_of_a_Character
"""


I know this isn't *really* Python-related, but there's Python involved
and you're the sort of people who'll be able to tell me what I've done
wrong, if anything.