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does twitter support unicode tweets?
I was hoping to post in Greek using Unicode or some equivalent. Is that possible? Is only ASCII supported?
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Inappropriate?View the http://twitter.com/public_timeline in your Everyone tab to see the kind of thing that's possible.
So if your computer can generate Unicode characters, you can post them on Twitter. If necessary, copy your message from another application and paste it into Twitter's What are you doing? box.
But bear in mind that a unicode character occupies 2 bytes, so that a purely Unicode tweet can contain max. 70 characters (instead of 140 in pure ASCII).
Actually it's more complicated than that, since certain characters on Twitter are coded as HTML entities, which occupy 3 or more bytes each.
Examples are < and > which are coded as & lt ; and & gt ;, respectively (i.e. 4 bytes each - ignore the spaces I added to prevent this page "obligingly" displaying the entities rather than the underlying ASCII characters).
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