Otis’s Comments (group member since Feb 10, 2009)

Otis’s comments from the Goodreads Status Update Writing Contest group.

Maryse: the reason is that particular entry uses a bunch of characters from microsoft word that actually count as multiple characters.

For instance: …

MS Word counts that as one character, but any ASCII storage system (like our database) counts it as 3. Note that if you just type three dots, it will also count as three - this is just related to special MS Word characters like the triple dot and the quotation marks.

Aren't character encodings are fun!