Messages in this thread | | | From | Patrick McFarland <> | Subject | Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:06 -0400 |
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On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:04 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Most people seem happy with 50 or so being a good limit even though many > systems support much longer.
50 characters or 50 bytes? Because in the case of UTF-8, if you do a lot of three byte characters (which require four bites to encode), 50 bytes is very short.
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