On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm... offhand, I'm not sure how reliably this would interact with
> things like cut-and-paste. If in one paste operation we try to replace
> 80 hanzi characters with 200 ASCII characters, what happens?


Ilmari and I have actually discussed this before. Ilmari's script jerkily
reverts the excess characters. I made a variant of the script that displays
an unobtrusive error message instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot/Long_edit_summary.js

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