title: Character count of Unicode string
body: <p>How would I get the character count of the below in python?</p>
  
  <pre><code>s = 'הוא אוסף אתכם מחר בשלוש וחצי.'
  
  Char count: 29
  Char length: 52
  
  len(s) = 52
  ? = 29
  </code></pre>