Why is the length of this string longer than the number of characters in it?

Question

This code:

string a = \"abc\";
string b = \"A         


        

Answer 1

From the documentation of the String.Length property:

The Length property returns the number of Char objects in this instance, not the number of Unicode characters. The reason is that a Unicode character might be represented by more than one Char. Use the System.Globalization.StringInfo class to work with each Unicode character instead of each Char.