Re:TIL the assumption that string length does not change whe...
by thrashh on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:36PM
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But who cares? This is like small potatoes.
If you give a Japanese writer 140 characters, they can already encode double the amount of information an English writer can. Non-storage “character”-based lengths have always been a poor estimation of information encoding so worrying about some missing graphemes feels like you’re missing the bigger problem.
If you give a Japanese writer 140 characters, they can already encode double the amount of information an English writer can. Non-storage “character”-based lengths have always been a poor estimation of information encoding so worrying about some missing graphemes feels like you’re missing the bigger problem.