Details and Demons

Granularity can drive one wild.

Especially in the world of markup.

Consider
<c> for character
<w> for word

Example..... "what it might be to hug the clouds"

<c>...</c>
<w><c>w</c><c>h</c><c>a</c><c>t</c></w>
<c> </c>
<w><c>i</c><c>t</c></w>
<c> </c>
<w><c>m</c><c>i</c><c>g</c><c>h</c><c>t</c></w>
<c> </c>
<w><c>b</c><c>e</c></w>
<c> </c>
<w><c>t</c><c>o</c></w>
<c> </c>
<w><c>h</c>u<c>g</c></w>
<c> </c>
<w>t<c>h</c><c>e</c></w>
<c> </c>
<w><c>c</c><c>l</c><c>o</c><c>u</c><c>d</c><c>s</c></w>=<c>.</c>

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Is that ellipsis counted as one character or three?

And so for day 948
18.07.2009