<i>The correct answer is that strings shouldn&#x27;t have length methods</i><p>There are plenty of uses for getting the length of a string where you will not be running into combining characters, clusters or any other things which would require special handling.<p>(remember that on the internet, all the data you receive is initially in string form, and very often we want to receive data representing fixed-length values such as phone numbers or credit card numbers, so &quot;you&#x27;re wrong for wanting to know the length&quot; is both a non-starter and, well, just plain wrong)