Re: Origin of Ellipsis (was: RE: Empty set)

Addison Phillips wrote:

> Not if the limit is counted in characters and not in bytes. Twitter,
> for example, counts code points in the NFC representation of a tweet.

You're right. I take that back, about Twitter at least.

Stephan Stiller wrote:

> From the link it isn't entirely clear whether they
> (a) count scalar values of NFC or
> (b) count code points of NFC.

Are they not the same thing, except for surrogates?

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