A tough call

Talking a lot about language today ... something related came up at work today. My team has to be extremely concerned about the amount of space we take up on a mobile device, as every byte counts (then again, you might as well use all that you have, or ROM space would be wasted). So, we're constantly trying to juggle things around to find the best fit.

In our latest effort to squeeze the jigsaw puzzle together, we realized that we were very close, but the last thing taking up too much space was a font file.

After pondering this for a while, I came up with a brilliant fix: Remove letters from the font until it fit! The problem: Which letters to remove? Obviously, we had to start with "wide" letters like capital W.

[By the way, the problem is real but the solution is a joke ... I hope.]