Discourse ships with adjusted automatic defaults for sites if locale
is set to Chinese
Big mistake!
In the olden days, each community stayed in their home country.
All was well.
In the newer days, we now have lots of international communities,
like the example site I posted.
Well, you might say that aforementioned international community should
set a different default.
Fine, but problem still there: Too loose for ASCII posters then.
Yup, we’re talking about two kinds of posters right there on the same
site. And those pesky posters might even switch between languages one
post to the next, or even in the same post, or even in the same Title.
Therefore I propose that you consider each Chinese character worth 5
ASCII etc. characters. Not just the current three, which gosh, happens
to be how many bytes a UTF-8 char is… And well, those emojis would
score at 2 to 4… what a mess.
Anyway I bet somebody has written a library that will give you the real
‘worthiness’ of each character, be it ASCII or not.