Στις 02-08-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 17:36 -0400, ο/η Aryeh Gregor έγραψε: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jason A. Spiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does the difference really matter so much that we must really use the > > more-obscure and more-technical term "bytes"? > > In English, maybe not. In a lot of languages, they'll differ by a > somewhat unpredictable factor that can be as high as three. The sane > thing would be to just make the counts be in characters rather than > bytes to begin with, of course -- it's hardly difficult. I imagine > Chinese people are puzzled when RC reports +3 and there was only one > character added.
I would love it if the indicator was in characters instead of bytes. That's more meaningful for almost every project. Readers are looking at text after all, not at raw strings. Ariel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
