[Developers] esoteric unicode issue with the blurb API

[Tom Morris]

My interpretation aligns with Chris'.  If you were to say "bytes" or
"octets" it would be a buffer size that could be used for memory
allocation.  If it's "characters," well, it's characters, which
relates to bytes in a fashion that is determined by the current
character encoding.

Tom

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Christopher R. Maden
<crism at metaweb.com> wrote:
> 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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