vacuum at jeb
Jul 3, 2009, 12:36 PM
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Re: Attribution on small interactive devices and systems
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I know it is even worse for some other languages, but I don't think it
is very interesting to calculate exact numbers for a couple of hundred
languages. The most typical worse case for a SMS is 70 two byte chars.
John
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Did you consider what this does in other scripts ... the notion that it is a
> small number of characters is based on the notion that the script will be
> the Latin script.. Other scripts tend to show as the Unicode numbers..
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> 2009/7/3 Brian <Brian.Mingus[at]colorado.edu>
>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John at Darkstar <vacuum[at]jeb.no> wrote:
>>
>>> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site
>>> would be
>>> "
>>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
>>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
>>>
>>> That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available in a SMS. For some
>>> languages the attribution will take more than one message. Ooops...
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> You just need to provide a url to the article. Type
>> wikipedia.org/articleinto your address bar and wait 5 seconds.
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Re: Attribution on small interactive devices and systems
