For reducing character counts on platforms with character limits by using Unicode ligatures and lookalikes
Based on
https://www.spiderarmy.com/text-reduction, but using only the neater-looking replacements (no ᅇ, ᄔ, ᇉ). Also excludes characters that actually exist as individual letters in other languages (examples: æ, ю, anything involving µ), and also avoids using characters that cause automatic line breaks as infixes (for example, "in" as a complete word will be replaced with the ㏌ character, but "include" will not become "㏌clude").
NOTE 1: Most of these characters will likely not help on Twitter due to how their character limits are calculated with Unicode characters.
NOTE 2: This does NOT currently preserve letter case. This is unfortunately a limitation of LingoJam, as it seems to convert everything into what it assumes to be correct sentence case (without considering line breaks as terminating a sentence) before parsing. I may try to see if its regex feature can be used to bypass this in the future.
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