[Developers] esoteric unicode issue with the blurb API

Christopher R. Maden crism at metaweb.com
Wed Mar 11 02:27:47 UTC 2009


Alec Flett wrote:
> In particular, there is a parameter called "maxlength", which is defined 
> in the documentation as:
> maxlength: maximum number of characters in the blurb, default is 200
> 
> but what this does not indicate is, what kind of characters.

It says “characters.”  I always assumed it would be 200 characters, not 
octets, words, or nybbles; if this was not the case, I am surprised, and 
if it will be the case, I am happy.

~Chris
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Christopher R. Maden
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