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What can we fit in 140 characters?

This is in reference to the current ‘Twitter image encoding challenge’ running on StackOverflow. If we want to restrict ourselves to assigned, non-control, non-private Unicode characters, then by my reckoning that gives us 129,775 available characters. wget http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt awk -F ‘;’ UnicodeData.txt -f countUnichars.awk | bc countUnichars.awk source: BEGIN { print "ibase=16" } # set [...]