Why You Can Tweet More In Japanese: What Counts As A Character?

Summary Twitter was set up to support 140 characters. And in the English alphabet, that's easy to understand: a character is a letter, number, space or punctuation mark. People more or less agree with computers there. And if it was twenty years ago, that's exactly how the system would work. That far, no further. But now, we have Unicode.

S3.E22 ∙ Why You Can Tweet More In Japanese: What Counts As A Character?

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Stars : Tom Scott Matt Gray Paul Curry Gary Brannan

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 16, 2013

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel Uploads

Language : English

Production companies : Pad 26 Limited

Summary Twitter was set up to support 140 characters. And in the English alphabet, that's easy to understand: a character is a letter, number, space or punctuation mark. People more or less agree with computers there. And if it was twenty years ago, that's exactly how the system would work. That far, no further. But now, we have Unicode.

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 16, 2013

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel Uploads

Language : English

Production companies : Pad 26 Limited

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