Comment by Ultimatt

Worth giving Raku a shout out here... methods do what they say and you write what you mean. Really wish every other language would pinch the Str implementation from here, or at least the design.

    $ raku
    Welcome to Rakudo™ v2025.06.
    Implementing the Raku® Programming Language v6.d.
    Built on MoarVM version 2025.06.

    [0] > " ".chars
    1
    [1] > " ".codes
    5
    [2] > " ".encode('UTF-8').bytes
    17
    [3] > " ".NFD.map(*.chr.uniname)
    (FACE PALM EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-3 ZERO WIDTH JOINER MALE SIGN VARIATION SELECTOR-16)