From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261920AbVFQIVk (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:21:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261921AbVFQIVk (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:21:40 -0400 Received: from 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com ([80.203.227.76]:52955 "EHLO mail.inprovide.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261920AbVFQIVa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:21:30 -0400 To: Patrick McFarland Cc: Lennart Sorensen , "Richard B. Johnson" , Lukasz Stelmach , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. References: <20050616150419.GY23488@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <200506162118.18470.pmcfarland@downeast.net> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:21:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200506162118.18470.pmcfarland@downeast.net> (Patrick McFarland's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:18:06 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.15 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patrick McFarland writes: > 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. What do you mean by three-byte characters requiring four bytes to encode? Is a three-byte character not a character encoded using three bytes? As for 50 bytes being too short, many of the multibyte characters are equivalent to several English characters, so fewer of them are required. You have a point, though. -- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com