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Our Discovery of Cramming (2017)

• deleted 9y ago
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  • dang 9y ago
    Added. Thanks!
• derefr 9y ago
  > Currently, a certain range of Unicode blocks, including Basic Latin, are counted half as much as other blocks, such as CJK Unified Ideographs. Has anyone made a Twitter clone where the "character limit" is simply a limit in the message's UTF-8 byte size? Seems like approximately where they ended up anyway. (Except, I guess, with Emoji being unwontedly cheap.)
  • nicky0 9y ago
    Expensive, I guess you mean.
    • derefr 9y ago
      Nah, I meant that Twitter's current logic is like counting UTF8 bytes, but that they Twitter's scheme gives an emoji codepoint a cost of 1, whereas it "should" have a cost of 4.
      • nicky0 9y ago
        Ah, got ya.
  • Asooka 9y ago
    That would penalise cyrillic languages and Greek, which use more than one byte per letter, but need roughly the same number of letters per tweet as English.