From: "Pål Bergström" <pal@...>
Date: 2008-08-20T02:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Cut a string if length > n

Ara Howard wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2008, at 9:25 AM, P�l Bergstr�m wrote:
> 
>> What's the best way to cut a string if the length is above n  
>> characters?
>> Is it slice, or is there any other convenient method? Trying to
>> understand the string class from the docs but not sure which one to  
>> use.
> 
> 
> this_always_works = string[ 0 .. n ]
> 
> regardless of whether the string is <, =, or > than n
> 
> a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

Found a problem with this. It messes up swedish letters that, I guess, 
is cut right of as if they where handled as latin1. What method can 
handle utf-8?
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