A 76-character bio, styled once, no longer has one useful length. const s =...
A 76-character bio, styled once, no longer has one useful length.
const s = "๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ข๐";
[...s].length // 9 code points (and 9 graphemes here)
s.length // 18 UTF-16 units โ what String.length counts
new TextEncoder().encode(s).length // 36 UTF-8 bytes โ what storage counts
The Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block looks like a clean 26-letter run you can index into. It is not. Five of its alphabetsโฆ
You've seen it everywhere โ ๐ฌ๐พ๐ป๐ผ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ Discord names, ๐ฏ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ Instagram bios, สแดสสสแด usernames. You've...
The 80-column line limit comes from IBM punched cards and early terminals โ but the readability and side-by-side-diff benefitsโฆ
A subtitle line-wrap width guard measured text in uppercase to get a conservative pixel budget, but the renderer draws mixedโฆ
A three-tier character encoding that reaches 8,704 characters in two bytes where UTF-8 needs three โ with measured savings, theโฆ
People love making their social media profiles look different. You may have seen Instagram bios with...
