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The hex 1337 mode certainly faces this limitation, but the emoji modes are actually working with more character space (albeit taking more space to store).

The all alphanumeric characters based 1337 mode should be able to approach / overtake standard UUID character space given its inclusion of the characters G-Z, though might need to add to the words list and tweak minimum word size to do so.

Thank you for the feedback! I'll be adding documentation for each mode's count of potential variations to clarify.

Yeah but there are subtle differences in emojis between platforms. I can't remember the exact details, but I remember running into it as a problem when I was buying emoji domains.[0] Essentially Emoji A would render identically to Emoji B on Android but on iOS Emoji A would render identically to Emoji C, so if you were ever entering them into a URL bar you'd have to have all of the possible combinations 301 to the canonical domain name.

[0] That was such a poorly preforming investment. At least I hit early on Bitcoin to make up for it.

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