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Interesting language effects at play. There’s a message in there: “你好吗?” Which is priced at 4c The equivalent message in English “how are you?” Is 10c
by thenanyu 8y ago
Interesting language effects at play. There’s a message in there: “你好吗?” Which is priced at 4c
The equivalent message in English “how are you?” Is 10c
- carlmr 8y agoWe can make it more fair by pricing UTF-8 bytes. 你好吗 = 9 bytes how are you = 11 bytes
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- fredley 8y agoper-byte pricing opens the pathway to posting images too!
- gruez 8y agonot really. according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roadmap_to_Unicode_BMP.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roadmap_to_Unicode_BMP.sv..., any codepoint bigger 0x80 (second half of the first box) is 2 byte per character, and codepoint bigger than 0x800 (anything past the 8th box) is 3 bytes charater. so while it might be fair for CJK languages, it's even less fair for languages that don't mostly use the latin alphabet.
- carlmr 8y agoThat's true, considering the name of the website they would have the privilege of an even more expensive chat.