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If you use unicode and select a different character set like gothic, you can't find it with a normal search even if you search the words in the tweet. You would probably have to search the exact same character set. This could allow people to send public messages that can't get

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picked up easily using the search functionality.

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b u t y o u c o u l d a l s o j u s t d o t h i s.

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JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

Jan 23, 2021

You know what? I wonder what language Twitter thinks it is. That will be interesting to check.

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JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

Jan 23, 2021

Very interesting. Twitter correctly gets the language correct for it.

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JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

Interesting! I would think it would detect what language the majority of text was and assign it to the appropriate language. Is it just "und" for undefined?

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JSON Baumgartner

@jasonbaumgartne

Jan 23, 2021

It would be fun to investigate and make a bunch of tweets in a thread to figure out the methodology for Twitter's language detection.