On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:34:45 +, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
Michael Torrie wrote:
[...]
However I know of no phone or network that won't let you use longer
messages; multiple SMS packets are used and most phone paste them back
together. So no there's nothing that anyone needs to change to use
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:32 AM, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
On 13/08/2013 04:20, Jason Friedman wrote:
I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they felt like it.
I thought
On 11 August 2013 12:14, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:44:40 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
café will be in your Copy-Paste buffer, and you can paste it in to
the tweet-box. It takes 5 characters. So much for testing ;).
How do you know that
Michael Torrie wrote:
On 08/11/2013 11:54 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Michael Torrie wrote:
I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they felt like it.
Isn't it for compatibility with
Michael Torrie wrote:
I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they felt like it.
Isn't it for compatibility with SMS? Twitter could
probably change it, but persuading all the cell phone
On 08/11/2013 11:54 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Michael Torrie wrote:
I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they felt like it.
Isn't it for compatibility with SMS? Twitter could
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/11/2013 11:54 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Michael Torrie wrote:
I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they
I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they felt like it.
I thought it was 140 characters?
https://twitter.com/about
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On 13/08/2013 04:20, Jason Friedman wrote:
I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they felt like it.
I thought it was 140 characters?
https://twitter.com/about
He did say or whatever.
Basically, I think Twitter's broken.
For my full discusion on the matter, see:
http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1k2yrn/help_with_len_and_input_function_33/cbku5e8
Here's the first post of mine, ineffectually edited for this list:
strikethroughThe obvious solution [to getting the
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote:
Given tweet = bcaf\x65\xCC\x81.decode():
tweet
'café'
But:
len(tweet)
5
You're now looking at the difference between glyphs and combining
characters. Twitter counts combining characters, so when you
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:17:42 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
Basically, I think Twitter's broken.
Oh, in about a million ways, but apparently people like it :-(
For my full discusion on the matter, see:
http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1k2yrn/
On 11 August 2013 10:09, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
The reason some accented letters have single code point forms is to
support legacy charsets; the reason some only exist as combining
characters is due to the combinational explosion. Some languages allow
you
On 11 August 2013 07:24, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote:
Given tweet = bcaf\x65\xCC\x81.decode():
tweet
'café'
But:
len(tweet)
5
You're now looking at the difference between glyphs and
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:44:40 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
On 11 August 2013 10:09, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
The reason some accented letters have single code point forms is to
support legacy charsets; the reason some only exist as combining
characters is due
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Consider a single character. It can have 0 to 5 accents, in any
combination. Order doesn't matter, and there are no duplicates, so there
are:
0 accent: take 0 from 5 = 1 combination;
1 accent: take
On 11 August 2013 12:14, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:44:40 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
On 11 August 2013 10:09, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
The reason some accented letters have single code point forms is
Le dimanche 11 août 2013 11:09:44 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:17:42 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
The reason some accented letters have single code point forms is to
support legacy charsets; ...
No.
jmf
PS Unicode normalization is failing expectedly very
On 11 August 2013 13:51, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le dimanche 11 août 2013 11:09:44 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:17:42 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
The reason some accented letters have single code point forms is to
support legacy charsets; ...
No.
jmf
PS
On 11/08/2013 10:54, Joshua Landau wrote:
On 11 August 2013 07:24, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote:
Given tweet = bcaf\x65\xCC\x81.decode():
tweet
'café'
But:
len(tweet)
5
You're now looking at
On 08/11/2013 09:34 AM, MRAB wrote:
If twitter counts characters, not codepoints, you could then ask
whether it passes the codepoints through as given. If it does, then you
experiment to see how much data you could send encoded as a sequence of
combining codepoints. (You might want to check
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