[Bug 337671] [NEW] python-twitter should count characters not bytes.

[Rory McCann]

Public bug reported:

I wanted to post this as a tweet "Had lighttpd installed ∴ it was
running ∴ apache couldn't restart ∴ roundcube couln't be upgraded ∴
software upgrade keep complaining", notice the ∴ unicode characters.

The tweet command complained that tweet must be under 140 characters.
However that *is* under 140 characters. However it is not under 140
bytes. Those unicode ∴'s are 1 character but are not 1 byte.

echo -n "Had lighttpd installed ∴ it was running ∴ apache couldn't restart ∴ roundcube couln't be upgraded ∴ software upgrade keep complaining" | wc -m
133

echo -n "Had lighttpd installed ∴ it was running ∴ apache couldn't restart ∴ roundcube couln't be upgraded ∴ software upgrade keep complaining" | wc -c
141

As proof, the twitter web interface does support this as a tweet:
http://twitter.com/lalonde/status/1278018325

The error message I was getting was:

 tweet "Had lighttpd installed ∴ it was running ∴ apache couldn't restart ∴ roundcube couln't be upgraded ∴ software upgrade keep complaining"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/tweet", line 116, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/tweet", line 108, in main
    status = api.PostUpdate(message)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/twitter.py", line 1049, in PostUpdate
    raise TwitterError("Text must be less than or equal to 140 characters.")
twitter.TwitterError: Text must be less than or equal to 140 characters.

** Affects: python-twitter (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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python-twitter should count characters not bytes.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337671
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