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Tell users about the risk of using emojis and accents in character count #1969

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EoinShaughnessy opened this issue Oct 27, 2021 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2026
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Tell users about the risk of using emojis and accents in character count #1969

EoinShaughnessy opened this issue Oct 27, 2021 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2026

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What

Update character count guidance to tell users that:

  • character count uses string.length to establish the length of the user input
  • what confusing results this can have with certain strings

Why

To see why this could be a problem, try the following strings in character count:
imageFor more details, see #1104: Character count component counts code points, not characters.

Who needs to work on this

Content Designer/Technical Writer, Developer

Who needs to review this

Another developer

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