Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.

From: Patrick McFarland (pmcfarland_at_downeast.net)
Date: 06/17/05

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    To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:06 -0400

    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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Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd 
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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