Does it? I doubt people expect len(facepalmguy) to be 17 whether you say that's counting "runes" or "chars" (with both being defined as UTF-8 code points). If y

Does it? I doubt people expect len(facepalmguy) to be 17 whether you say that's counting "runes" or "chars" (with both being defined as UTF-8 code points). If you know enough about Unicode to object to code points being called a shorthand for "characters," I doubt you'll be confused for more than a second.