Twitter Text Obj VS stalin-sort

I recall that Twitter allowed 140 Chinese characters in tweets originally, but when they switched to 280 ascii characters, CJK languages were not included. The current documentation does say that some languages and emojis use 2 characters per symbol of the 280 limit, limiting those languages to 140. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/counting-characters

I assume you we’re going for half of the (new) character limit? That wouldn’t be bad as a rough guess, except Twitter uses UTF-8 encoding and what counts as a character is a bit complicated. Certain objects like usernames in a reply or image URLs hosted on Twitter are not counted, either. The maximum size of a modern tweet could therefore be upwards of 280 x 4 = 1,120 bytes.

Given the examples in this article it seems like it could potentially be used for this!

It turns out, working this out is non-trivial, as Twitter has a few rules around how it count's characters. These are basically:

Japanese, Korean and Chinese were excluded from that increased cap, because they already had a significant advantage in being able to put more information into a single character. (More specifically, it's implemented such that ideograms count as 2 characters now, and emoji do, too.)

The 280 character limit in a tweet isn't equal to the number of glyphs in a tweet.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/counting-characters

Have you heard of our lord and saviour, Stalin sort?

Don't forget Stalin Sort!

I'm sure there's some practical application for StalinSort, but that doesn't mean I'm going to start considering StalinSort for all of my sorting needs.

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This was just mentioned in another post Stalin Sort Repo

Always opt for Stalin Sort in these cases. If the Prof objects, running them through the algorithm quells any dissent reliably.