Darren, Good point. I may actually be overlooking the obvious ;) Let me check my logs, I have seen that the message size grow much when using with Japanese. But maybe this is due to the fact that we mostly deal with MS Windows messages and they may be even phonier on Japanese Win32 ;)
Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: Darren New [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:31 PM > To: Rainer Gerhards > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Syslog Internationalization - Message size > > > Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > Comments are highly appreciated. Hopefully I am overlooking > something > > obvious. > > It's not obvious that a character set like Chinese taking > (say) 3 bytes > per character is going to lead to messages three times as > long. If one > character represents "email" and one character represents > "message" and > one character represents "failure", that's just 9 bytes. > > Just a passing thought... > > -- > Darren New, San Diego CA USA (PST) > Things to be thankful for, #187: > There is no Chinese tradition of changing from > shoes to slippers to get off an escalator. > > >
