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Text search,

search, that counts

text replacement,

why?

ellipsizing text at the end or middle (as done commonly on iOS),

you need to know width for that, and you don't, bad idea

fuzzy search,

search

password word limits, password length limits, matching passwords (try using bcrypt on international languages without first normalising),

i18n password? very bad idea

detecting and filtering rude words in public chat

search&replace, anyway you won't be able to, because f͌̊ͦuͥcͥ͑ͩ͛k͂͌̿ͣ̾




> you need to know width for that, and you don't, bad idea

You also need to not chop off accents. "café" cannot become "cafe…"

> i18n password? very bad idea

Because string types are so broken.




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