There is another 'modern' language that does utf8 right and has done it right for a long time. I know it's mostly fallen out of favour, but we're still out her

There is another 'modern' language that does utf8 right and has done it right for a long time. I know it's mostly fallen out of favour, but we're still out here: Perl. $ perl -wle 'use utf8; print length("");' 1 Without use utf8: $ perl -wle 'print length("");' 3 It's funny: after Perl fell out of favour, is when it got all its best stuff. It's still my preferred language for just about everything.