Head Scratcher

gistfile1.go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "unicode/utf8"
)

func main() {
    str := "\u0928" + "\u093F"
    fmt.Println(len(str))
    fmt.Println(len("नि"))
    fmt.Println(utf8.RuneCountInString(str))
    fmt.Println(utf8.RuneCountInString("नि"))
}

Output:
% ./unicode
6
6
2
2

----

#! /usr/bin/env perl

use utf8;
use v5.20;
use strict;
use warnings;
binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)";

my $out1 = "\x{0928}\x{093F}";
my $out2 = "नि";

my $count1 = () = $out1 =~ m/\X/g;
my $count2 = () = $out2 =~ m/\X/g;

say length($out1);
say length($out2);
# Grapheme count
say $count1;
say $count2;

Output:
% perl unicode.pl
2
2
1
1