Thank you for the explanation! Converting to a rune slice and back does give me the behavior that I wanted. It still looks butt ugly to me, but at least it work

Thank you for the explanation! Converting to a rune slice and back does give me the behavior that I wanted. It still looks butt ugly to me, but at least it works. In Go: fmt.Printf("%s", string([]rune("нєℓℓσ")[1:4])) // єℓℓ In Python: print("нєℓℓσ"[1:4]) # єℓℓ