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Here’s my favorite post on the subject https://adam-p.ca/blog/2025/04/string-length/




Finally an article that doesn't pretend grapheme clusters are the be-all end-all of Unicode handling.

I'm saving this one. Not exactly how I'd explain it, but it's simplified enough to share with my current co-workers without being misleading.




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