On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
- And in certain cases have the user re-sumbit with a new summary.
No, the whole point is that should be unnecessary. If we're limiting only by character count, we can use character-based limits on both client and server side. That was only going to be necessary if the client had to use character limits while the server used byte limits. This removes a whole group of issues and also is more reasonable -- unless Greek/Russian/etc. speakers are just naturally more concise than English speakers, which I doubt. (In the case of abjads like Hebrew and Arabic, or especially logographic writing systems like Chinese, a lower character limit actually makes sense if the goal is to avoid rambling summaries, but that's more of a random side-effect than an intended advantage.)