-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mads Kristiansen wrote: > Just joined, so sorry if this is a recurring subject. I couldn't find > anything about it in the archives, so I'll just take my chances. > > I am getting really annoyed by the 140 characters limit for notices, so I > just wanted to ask if anybody has made any patches to make this configurable > in such a way that I can increase the number of characters I am able to > post. > > I looked at postnotice.php and it seems straightforward to do the change. > > Is there any special reason why this has not been implemented. The OMB spec > says that 140 is recommended, but there is no maximum to the number of > characters - so shouldn't it be configurable (and default to something like > 1000 characters or a multipla of 140)? > > I can't be the only one annoyed by this limit, or? ... ;) > > Best regards, Mads Kristiansen
I believe the 140 (8-bit) characters limit comes from text messages (SMS) where the SMS standard sets the payload length to a maximum of 140 octet (8-bit) characters. There are other variations on the length of SMS. 7-bit characters (which is the default GSM alphabet) has the upper limit 160 characters and if 16-bit UTF alphabet is used the upper limit is 70 characters. Since a byte is common in computers (8 bits) the 140 character limit conforms with the SMS standard. Although I like UTF more than all the other computer alphabets (being from Iceland), I am thankful for 140 characters (according to the standard it should be 70 characters). So I think microblogging is based around the idea that you can blog via a single SMS text messages and therefore they support 140 characters. Given that you can send an SMS text message and still say what you want, micrblogging should be just as easy. /Tryggvi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJOaevTfUwC3N5Fj0RAkXWAKCrjnMtt3997fQ2kCnmz4xYTW2mqACfQ2hm X0vdC88k4bDYFC3KjQgtNMQ= =wiDn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
