On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I've just reported your mutual wish at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25198 Ariel and Aryeh. And at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25199 I've reported my original idea of showing the number of added or removed characters on more pages. To all who replied, thank you for your feedback. I am now unsubscribing from wikitech-l. Please CC me on all replies. -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, packager, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs. +1 (416) 992-3445 / www.jspiro.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
