On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hmm... offhand, I'm not sure how reliably this would interact with things like cut-and-paste. If in one paste operation we try to replace 80 hanzi characters with 200 ASCII characters, what happens?
Ilmari and I have actually discussed this before. Ilmari's script jerkily reverts the excess characters. I made a variant of the script that displays an unobtrusive error message instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot/Long_edit_summary.js