Python returning the wrong length of string when using special characters

Question

I have a string ë́aúlt that I want to get the length of a manipulate based on character positions and so on. The problem is that the first ë́ is being counted twice, or I gu

Answer 1

The best you can do is to use unicodedata.normalize() to decompose the character and then filter out the accents.

Don't forget to use unicode and unicode literals in your code.