On 10/20/2011 3:37 PM, Pete Resnick wrote:
So, if the limit is still 998, then there is no change with respect the former
limit.
See the next sentence:
(Note that in
ASCII octets and characters are effectively the same but this is not
true in UTF-8.)
Remember, in UTF-8, characters can be multiple octets. So 998 UTF-8 encoded
*characters* are likely to be many more than 998 octets long. So the change is
to say that the limit is in octets, not in characters.
The switch in vocabulary is clearly subtle for readers. (I missed it too.)
I suggest adding some language that highlights the point, possibly the same
language as you just used to explain it.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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