EDIT: @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:
Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: ()
Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.
That zero-width hack doesn't seem to work:
Wait how high am I? The example on top returns a length one higher than the example on bottom, because it has a non-printable character in there right?
Yes.
Uh wait did you edit the post and resolve something
Also nice going to python, I went to a web tool (Unicode char identifier) but gotta get more serious about 👨💻
If it weren't working your code wouldn't count an additional character on the first string.
Anyway, this is the character., as it seems that deleting the first parenthesis also deletes the ZWJ.
I'd just post something like: