Passing char offsets between #python utf8 codepoints and #csharp utf16 code units

char_count.py

# in C# a char is a utf16 code unit
# in Python len(str) counts code points, not utf16 code units
with open("test.txt", 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
    content = file.read()
    utf16codeUnitCount = int(len(content.encode("utf-16-le"))/2) # count utf16 code units
    print(f"Number of characters: {utf16codeUnitCount}")

Program.cs

using System.Text;

byte[] contentBytes = File.ReadAllBytes("test.txt");
Console.WriteLine($"Number of characters: {Encoding.UTF8.GetCharCount(contentBytes)}"); // GetCharCount -> should be renamed to Getunicode16LECodeUnitCount()
// both Encoding.UTF8.GetCharCount() and content.Length count utf16 code units (known in .NET as "characters") and not utf8 codepoints (known in Python as "characters")

test.txt

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