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Numeric Character References don't count against character limits
Short, concise description of the idea
Typographic markup wouldn't count against character limits in entries or comments.
Full description of the ideaI like to format my entries to use proper typographical symbols-- for example, smart (curly) quotes vs. dumb (straight) quotes,
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But I'm all for being able to condense this into as few as possible bytes.
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Basically, I'd like LJ to automatically turn characters like " " (straight quotes, used for measurement) into “ ” (curly quotes, used for writing) and to turn -- into - (em-dash). Things like that.
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If the appeal is limited to a minority set on LJ, then I would think that it might be best compensated for through specialized tags, like the "<" tag for the "lesser-than" < symbol, etc.
But eh, what do I know? XD
EDIT: And, derp! I now realize the point of this suggestion: to cut down on the space required by such tags so that it doesn't break character limit. I get that now. I run into that all the time when editing my userpics comments, especially when crediting someone on LJ.
EDIT v2.0: So... how about if instead of auto-converting these, the HTML cleaner instead just recognizes such tags as only one character as opposed to the four (or more) characters required to construct them?
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Because of how epically smart-quotes mess with HTML, I'm against that happening completely automatically; I'm one of the sorts who turns the auto-replace feature off directly after installing WordPerfect, because I manage to use quotes in perfectly reasonable ways that always manage to have a large number of the smart-quotes pointed the wrong way.
A button or something would be nice for those who want to use it, but having smart-quotes happen automatically would be an epic dealbreaker for me.
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As a possibility - if you preview your comment and paste the preview in, I think it doesn't count as much against your character limit? I'm not... positive on that, though.
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Depending on your OS, you may have a compose character or 3rd level shift function already to type non-keyboard characters in directly, and if not, software addons to do it are available and free (or at least dirt cheap). I've not investigated, but if you're lucky, multi-byte UTF-8 characters might even only count as one in LJ - Twitter, for example, is helpful in that way.
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