On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > The big trick is that these are generally for fields which have a > database length limit of 255 *bytes*, which can be anywhere from 63 to > 255 *characters* of UTF-8 text. > > The 'maxlength' on the input field is enforced in Unicode *characters* > by the browser. > > I think the 200 is an arbitrary compromise to keep the in-browser limit > from overflowing the field length in most European languages... but it's > insufficient for non-Latin text.
. . . and the right solution here is probably just to convert all these fields to TEXT and allow for the possibility of much longer edit summaries if desired. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
