So it turns out there are exactly 256 Braille characters in Unicode https://github.com/ferno/braille-encode …
-
.
@qntm Problem: They use 3 bytes per char in UTF-8, which makes it *worse* than hex encoding.
.@Darkhogg It's a more efficient use of UTF-16, though! Platforms using UTF-16 strings include Windows and Java
-
-
.
@Darkhogg And if you're just plain counting code points (e.g. UTF-32, or Twitter) it's good too -
@qntm@Darkhogg Also fun for textual sparklines https://gist.github.com/potch/ee16dfec3266c50d2f93 …
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.