"This coding interview is just going to be determining the length of a unicode utf-8 string."
Junior level dev: "Oh, this is going to be easy. How do they not know about len()?"
Senior level dev: "Oh, brilliant - a test of tolerance for pain by evaluating various code point chains with emoji, accents, and LTR/RTL markers. I'll start by writing some tests for 8-bit ord and char conversions with lookahead evals."
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