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Y'know a great way to make people shout less in text?

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2013-09-15 21:31:35 in Tech
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

Make capital letters cost two character counts.

Comments

  • NyktosNyktos
    edited 2013-09-15 22:12:16
    a little muffled

    Define "capital letters".

  • KrakenKraken

    I'll give you a penny to SHUT THE FUCK UP


    $0.26.

  • StormtroperStormtroper

    what if we write like this?

  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!

    Look at my post, it 's emphatic in 4 different ways

  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief

    Textual experiences all across this forum.

  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue

    Reminds me of something I came across many years ago: One URL-shortening website attempted to be Twitter-friendly by using Unicode characters in its URLs in addition to the basic ASCII set. More possible characters = more possible combinations = fewer characters required in each URL. Simple, right?


    As it turned out, a number of third-party Twitter clients at the time weren't actually counting 140 characters, but 140 bytes, under the naive assumption that one character always equals one byte. So some of these fancy characters, when pasted into said clients, were counting as two or three "characters" despite appearing as only one.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    Yeah, things like that are unfortunately still pretty common. English-speaking developers don't bother to test their software with non-English input.

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