Comment limit of 1000 characters broken?

[Sigma Female]

Trying to post a comment that's 864 characters long and Steam won't let me, I get an error message. No emojis or anything.

[nullable]

It's hard to say without seeing the content. The count could be broken, but it's possible there's some details you're ignoring.

Also if you're using a lot of unicode characters there's times depending on how the clientside versus serverside validation works where you might get disagreeing validation results. But seeing the content would help clarify that.

[Ettanin]

Note that characters that are not of the ASCII space such as ä ö ü ß are still subject to multi-byte mapping in UTF-8 and therefore count as multiple characters.

[Sigma Female]

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Note that characters that are not of the ASCII space such as ä ö ü ß are still subject to multi-byte mapping in UTF-8 and therefore count as multiple characters.

I wrote the entire thing in Cyrillic letters, maybe that's the case?

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by Mistress Yaoi:

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Note that characters that are not of the ASCII space such as ä ö ü ß are still subject to multi-byte mapping in UTF-8 and therefore count as multiple characters.

I wrote the entire thing in Cyrillic letters, maybe that's the case?

yes, cyrillic characters are mapped using multiple bytes. The english Wikipedia has a good explanation on how this mapping with non-ASCII characters works.

[metamec]

Latin characters occupy 1 byte.
Cyrillic characters occupy 2 bytes.

>  new TextEncoder().encode('Й').length;  // Cyrillic Й
<. 2
>  new TextEncoder().encode('ё').length;  // Cyrillic ё
<. 2
>  new TextEncoder().encode('N').length;  // Latin N
<. 1
>  new TextEncoder().encode('здрав').length;
<. 10
>  new TextEncoder().encode('hello').length;  
<. 5

You can verify the above in the console (ctrl+shift+i) of your internet browser.

TLDR: If your comment is entirely in Cyrillic then your new limit is 500 characters.

Edit: Actually, I just realised that it will be slightly higher than 500 because spaces occupy only 1 byte. It's always the same space character, regardless of script.