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: >>>> "cafeĢ" 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 it takes 5 characters? Is that some Javascript >>> widget? I'd blame buggy Javascript before Twitter. >> >> I go to twitter.com, log in and press that odd blue compose button in >> the top-right. After pasting at says I have 135 (down from 140) >> characters left. > > I'm pretty sure that will be a piece of Javascript running in your > browser that reports the number of characters in the text box. So, I > would expect that either: > > - Javascript doesn't provide a way to normalize text; > > - Twitter's Javascript developer(s) don't know how to normalize text, or > can't be bothered to follow company policy (shame on them); > > - the Javascript just asks the browser, and the browser doesn't know how > to count characters the Twitter way; > > etc. But of course posting to Twitter via your browser isn't the only way > to post. Twitter provide an API to twit, and *that* is the ultimate test > of whether Twitter's dev guide is lying or not.
Well, I've done some further testing and it seems you're right. It's just the javascript that's wrong. I guess they did it for better load-times. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
