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Off topic, but those messages are sure a lot longer than 140 characters in translated form. I suppose that if app.net wants to know whether its longer characte
by comex 14y ago
Off topic, but those messages are sure a lot longer than 140 characters in translated form. I suppose that if app.net wants to know whether its longer character count limit is a good idea, it can just look to China.
- phate 14y agoI'm no expert but doesn't chinese have single symbols/words that when translated turn into multiple words. And it maybe unrelated but don't chinese characters take up more space in the ASCII table or something. Again I'm no expert.
- eru 14y agoAscii does not include Chinese characters. It doesn't even include European alphabets. You might be talking about unicode? > I'm no expert but doesn't chinese have single symbols/words that when translated turn into multiple words. Often more like one Chinese character per Chinese word. But you also have compound words of multiple characters, I believe. And then, translation to English isn't word for word, either.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoUsually one or two characters per Chinese word, two characters being much more common for anything other than simple words. More than two characters is not unheard of for less commonly used words.
- est 14y agoFrom the Perl 6 author: Chinese Twitter users live in a density 2x to 8x their English counterparts; here's why http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2009/10/our-paroqial-fermament-one-tide-on-another.html http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2009/10/our-paroqial-fermament-...
- seanmcdirmid 14y ago140 chinese characters. Sometimes at work I'll have to deal with weird limits like having to write a paragraph with 100 characters, with a system is designed for both English and Chinese writers written by a Chinese vendor....