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Update numbers to reflect 4-byte UTF-8-encoded characters (#27083)
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You need 4 bytes for characters outside the BMP, which includes many emoji and
a bunch of less-common writing characters too.
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DaveCTurner committed Jul 2, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -56,5 +56,5 @@ limit of `32766`.

NOTE: The value for `ignore_above` is the _character count_, but Lucene counts
bytes. If you use UTF-8 text with many non-ASCII characters, you may want to
set the limit to `32766 / 3 = 10922` since UTF-8 characters may occupy at most
3 bytes.
set the limit to `32766 / 4 = 8191` since UTF-8 characters may occupy at most
4 bytes.

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