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That Twitter RT Symbol: '♻' . What's the story?

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  • 23-02-2011 10:52pm
    #1
    uvox
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    OK, we safely use '♻' instead of 'RT' in Tweets?

    Is this symbol universally supported across all Twitter clients? What glyph and code point does it use? Is it Unicode?

    I don't see the advantage of using '♻' to be honest. RT is two 7 bit characters in total, the '♻' is three, of which one must by double byte I am sure.

    Looks like the Irish Times fell foul of it today, as it came out as '?'

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0223/1224290604098.html


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    #2
    Ghost Estate
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    8 bit characters. The recycle symbol uses 3 bytes in UTF-8


    But since when has Web 2.0 ever been about saving bandwidth??


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    uvox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭uvox


    Right 8-bit. My bad. Still not sure about universal support of that character, but whatever..


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