I think using a geometric, rather than numeric, indicator is a good idea, but until it starts moving in response to typing, it will be unclear what it means. And because that movement in response to typing is so important to the user understanding the meaning of the indicator, it should probably just be a line with 255 segments and respond to every keystroke.

- Trevor

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Erick Guan <fantasticfears@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Edit summary can't be longer than 255 bytes. Bug 4715 which wants to support longer summary won't be patched in a short period, or won't fix. Bug 40035 shows the counter by exposing how much bytes left directly to the user. But it will still confuse the user in other languages.

I think a indicator which contains four gray lines will help. With the content of edit summary increasing, the indicator decrease the number of lines. When edit summary takes up more than 255 bytes, the indicator increases red lines for warning and the save button is disabled instead of wrap content of the edit summary.

In this way, the indicator works consistently with any characters at least.

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Regards,

Erick Guan/管啸 (fantasticfears)

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