On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ariel T. Glenn ariel@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@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.
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