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Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List?

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List?
Date 2013-08-12 17:54 +1200
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Michael Torrie wrote:
> I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
> hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
> if they felt like it.

Isn't it for compatibility with SMS? Twitter could
probably change it, but persuading all the cell phone
networks to change at the same time might be rather
difficult.

-- 
Greg

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Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 19:26 -0600
  Re: Could you verify this,   Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-08-12 17:54 +1200
    Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 02:54 +0100
    Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 19:48 -0600
    Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2013-08-12 21:20 -0600
    Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-08-13 04:32 +0100
    Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 09:14 +0100
    RE: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com.dmarc.invalid> - 2013-08-13 15:34 +0000
      Re: Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-14 06:36 +0000

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