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Corebird doesn't count "280" characters properly #794

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IBBoard opened this issue Nov 25, 2017 · 0 comments
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Corebird doesn't count "280" characters properly #794

IBBoard opened this issue Nov 25, 2017 · 0 comments

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IBBoard commented Nov 25, 2017

Ticket #780 added 280 characters, but it takes the simplest approach and doesn't count correctly by Twitter's rules.

For example, the following is 200 smilies:

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Corebird says I have 80 characters left, whereas Twitter says I'm 120 characters over the limit.

People like FakeUnicode have been poking what counts for one character and what counts for two, but it's not authoritative.

The Twitter-Text API has a section on "weighted length calculation" and what the ranges are.

Corebird should incorporate those ranges and make "correct" counts.

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