[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-10-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Just to follow up on Matt's note, I'm sorry this never got updated. Some changes have been made and are waiting to go out now. When I switched from working on the Platform (formerly API) team to my focus on international I took over this issue. Once this current fix is deployed

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-09-10 Thread TjL
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:    I more than agree with the above statement that a character is a character and Twitter shouldn't care. Data should be data. The main issue with that is that some clients compose characters and some don't. My common

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-09-09 Thread Charles A. Lopez
2009/9/9 Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com Hi There, I'm sorry this never got updated. Some changes have been made and are waiting to go out now. When I switched from working on the Platform (formerly API) team to my focus on international I took over this issue. Once this current fix

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-09-08 Thread TjL
It's been nearly 6 months. Has this question been answered? If so I missed it. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Alex Paynea...@twitter.com wrote: Unfortunately, nothing definitive. We're still looking into this. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:56, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-09-08 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi There, I'm sorry this never got updated. Some changes have been made and are waiting to go out now. When I switched from working on the Platform (formerly API) team to my focus on international I took over this issue. Once this current fix is deployed (probably in a week or so since

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-24 Thread Craig Hockenberry
Any news from the Service Team? I'd really like to get the counters right in an upcoming release... -ch On Mar 6, 12:18 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: I'm taking this email to our Service Team, the folks who work on the back-end of the service. The whole message body changing as it

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-24 Thread Alex Payne
Unfortunately, nothing definitive. We're still looking into this. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:56, Craig Hockenberry craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com wrote: Any news from the Service Team? I'd really like to get the counters right in an upcoming release... -ch On Mar 6, 12:18 pm, Alex Payne

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-11 Thread Craig Hockenberry
DO NOT ENCODE WITH HTML ENTITIES. The only reason that and are encoded as lt; and gt; is because these values are represented within an XML text element. This is invalid XML: textThis -- is a test/text And this is valid XML: textThis lt;-- is a test/text If you use HTML entities, they will

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-10 Thread TjL
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:27 PM, atebits loren.brich...@gmail.com wrote: Just to confirm: EXTREME prejudice as in 140 *bytes* as defined by UTF-8 with HTML entity encoding only for special ( ) characters? Just to interject: has not been specially encoded except for during a brief time when

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-10 Thread Nicolas Steenhout
I'd reiterate that there's no need to encode as rt; What about eacute; or agrav; ?? :) Nic

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I'd reiterate that there's no need to encode as rt; What about eacute; or agrav; ?? :) We consider the issue neither acute nor grave. You were waiting all day for that, weren't you? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser *

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-10 Thread TjL
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: We consider the issue neither acute nor grave. UNFOLLOW. Oh, wait, crap.

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-10 Thread Nicolas Steenhout
All is such an inclusive term, isn't it?  :-) ONE OF US!  ONE OF US! Hey! I resemble that :) But I fear we're somewhat West of the OT's question :) And we still don't know what to do about encoding html entities used for accents in languages such as French, Spanish, etc ;) Nic

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
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 spec...@floodgap.com wrote: 2) 140 Unicode _multi-byte_ characters: http://twitter.com/atebits/ status/1286199010 What's

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-09 Thread atebits
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

[twitter-dev] Re: What is 140 characters?

2009-03-09 Thread Alex Payne
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 loren.brich...@gmail.com 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