Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoeg as a link where using a word 300 times on the same page would be cumbersome
Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoeg as a link where using a word 300 times on the same page would be cumbersome
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
“Fedi”
Already more than 50% shorter.
In comparison, asterism symbol (and any proposal that further extends into Unicode’s emoji area) still spends three, maybe four bytes.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I… umm… yes, I will grant that in UTF-8 and perhaps UTF-16, it encodes to fewer bytes. But that doesn’t have anything to do with my point.