We're totally onboard with this XEP, and it is, in fact, the way we already do count characters for references in all versions of Xabber.
However, there is one important case not addressed in this XEP: XML predefined entities. Symbols that are to be escaped, as listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references are: & -- & < -- < > -- > " -- " ' - ' Counting symbols will result in different outcomes if we count characters before or after unescaping (from experience, without explicit mention of this problemour developers have spilt exactly 50/50 on this: 2 developers did count before unsecaping and 2 - after) In the end we have settled for counting characters of escaped string, so to draw *&&&* in a client we count it as string with a length of 15, thus <bold> reference points to characters 0..14: <reference xmlns="urn:xmpp:reference:0" begin="0" end="14" type="markup"><bold /></reference> вт, 17 дек. 2019 г. в 16:19, <p...@bouah.net>: > The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP. > > Title: Character counting in message bodies > Abstract: > This document describes how to correctly count characters in message > bodies. This is required when referencing a position in the body. > > URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/charcount.html > > The Council will decide in the next two weeks whether to accept this > proposal as an official XEP. > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org > _______________________________________________ > -- Andrew Nenakhov CEO, redsolution, OÜ https://redsolution.com <http://www.redsolution.com>
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