On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> 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
<jasonspiro4(a)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.
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.
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