Once the guys on the backend team get back to me, I'll provide as much. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 16:27, atebits <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to confirm: "EXTREME prejudice" as in "140 *bytes* as defined by > UTF-8 with HTML entity encoding only for special (< > &) characters? > > So my tweet should *NOT* have worked? > http://twitter.com/atebits/status/1286199010 > > Would love to see some kind of official *this is how we determine how > long some hunk of unicode is* blurb on the API docs. > > Loren > > On Mar 9, 3:17 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just to keep the group updated: one of our engineers has claimed this >> issue. It will be dealt with with EXTREME prejudice. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:47, Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> 2) 140 Unicode _multi-byte_ characters: <http://twitter.com/atebits/ >> >> status/1286199010> >> >> >> What's curious is that Loren's example with 140 characters uses the >> >> Unicode 27A1 glyph. It uses 3 bytes in UTF-8. Why didn't it get >> >> truncated? This seems to contradict Alex's statement in the thread >> >> mentioned above. >> >> >> As people start to use things like Emoji, tinyarro.ws and generally >> >> figure out that Unicode (UTF-8) is a valid type of data on Twitter, >> >> our clients should adapt and display more accurate "characters >> >> remaining" counts. I can count bytes instead of characters, but I'm >> >> not sure if I should or not. >> >> > FWIW, I had a number of users complain about truncated UTF-8 sequences a >> > while back, which may be a symptom of this same problem. TTYtter now counts >> > bytes explicitly, and this seems to have dealt with the issue. >> >> > -- >> > ------------------------------------ >> > personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- >> > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* [email protected] >> > -- Make welfare as hard to get as building permits. >> > --------------------------- >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x >
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