On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspi...@gmail.com> 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.
A question for the non-English wiki contributors out there: Do you honestly care that MediaWiki shows byte counts and not character counts? If so, why do you care? Best regards, -Jason _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
