From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261877AbVFQBSi (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261868AbVFQBSi (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:38 -0400 Received: from downeast.net ([12.149.251.230]:29397 "EHLO downeast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261877AbVFQBSf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:35 -0400 From: Patrick McFarland To: Lennart Sorensen Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:06 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" , Lukasz Stelmach , mru@inprovide.com, "Alexander E. Patrakov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050616150419.GY23488@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050616150419.GY23488@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart36103587.OzXh0cRd2r"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506162118.18470.pmcfarland@downeast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart36103587.OzXh0cRd2r Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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.=20 50 characters or 50 bytes? Because in the case of UTF-8, if you do a lot of= =20 three byte characters (which require four bites to encode), 50 bytes is ver= y=20 short. =2D-=20 Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, w= e'd=20 all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening= to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 --nextPart36103587.OzXh0cRd2r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsiTa8Gvouk7G1cURAo+/AJ0SkLQHEZKVDy12Ug2MuZeK+6MW1QCgrUan Oc/Z/eA65+cAOtV8v/RzhPc= =dVjM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart36103587.OzXh0cRd2r--