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Comment by kitten_mittens_ | Hacker News Reader

This is a product of UTF-8 encoding, isn’t it? What’s the third index of “Füß”?

There is no reason they can't come up with a more readable API that works. Python says it's 'ß' and I'm fine with it as long as it's consistent:

  >>> "Füß"[2]
  'ß'