https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25198
Summary: Please display revision length in characters, not
bytes, in history and Recent Changes
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.17-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: jasonspi...@gmail.com
Hi. In page history screens and Recent Changes, please display revision length
in characters, not bytes.
Ariel T. Glenn writes, "I would love [this]. [This would be] more meaningful
for almost every project. Readers are looking at text after all, not at raw
strings."[1]
Aryeh Gregor writes that it would prevent some users from becoming needlessly
confused. "I imagine Chinese people are puzzled when RC reports +3 and there
was only one character added."[2]
^ [1].
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/48841/focus=48966
^ [2].
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/48841/focus=48965
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