# Strange behaviour of emoticons in character count

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-of-emoticons-in-character-count/19049>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [8월 19, 2014, 1:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-of-emoticons-in-character-count/19049 "2014-08-19T13:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [8월 25, 2014, 7:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-behaviour-of-emoticons-in-character-count/19049/6 "2014-08-25T19:17:57Z")

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Okay, so this seems to apply to uploaded images too. Shouldn’t these be excluded from the character count?

If I were to paste an image in my response, it would exceed the 20 characters needed to post a reply/topic, so I could post an image and leave it at that… Maybe that was intended…

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