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Quiz: The length of a phrase

What will the .chars method return for the following strings?

4 'Raku' — (: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 :)  
13 'Raku & Rakudo' — (: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 :) Spaces are also countable.
6 'Ça va?' — (: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 :) Ç is a single Unicode character.
0 '' — (: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 :) An empty string.
2 '中国' — (: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 :) More than two bytes in UTF-8, but still only two characters.

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