On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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