In other words, can you top out Bluesky's byte limit by writing in a human language, not relying on emoji or proto-emoji like ☪? And if not, what human text comes closest— has *largest* ratio of byte-length to grapheme-length?
I'm guessing the leading candidates would be:
- Vietnamese, as far as I know the diacritic-est language on earth;
- Chinese, assuming you can stick only to four-byte characters;
- Archaic korean— oh, but this one's *complicated*, so I'll have to explain in the next post—
@mcc Hindi's got to be pretty good. "नमस्ते" (namaste) clocks in at 18 bytes for 3 gcs; of that the "-ste" alone (स्ते) is 12 bytes for 1gc. "पास्त्रामी" (pastrami - I'm just thinking of random words here) is 30 bytes for still 3 gcs. I'm sure someone who actually knows Hindi could do much better here!
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