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carlmr | karma 7214 | avg karma 2.48 · 2019-02-28 11:35:26+00:00

We can make it more fair by pricing UTF-8 bytes.

??? = 9 bytes

how are you = 11 bytes

fredley | karma 11683 | avg karma 6.88 · 2019-02-28 12:17:51+00:00

per-byte pricing opens the pathway to posting images too!

gruez | karma 34333 | avg karma 2.33 · 2019-02-28 16:40:43+00:00

not really. according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roadmap_to_Unicode_BMP.sv..., any codepoint bigger 0x80 (second half of the first box) is 2 byte per character, and codepoint bigger than 0x800 (anything past the 8th box) is 3 bytes charater. so while it might be fair for CJK languages, it's even less fair for languages that don't mostly use the latin alphabet.

carlmr | karma 7214 | avg karma 2.48 · 2019-02-28 16:52:33

That's true, considering the name of the website they would have the privilege of an even more expensive chat.