* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > and finally posited> wrote it, not who's replying to it ;) > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is more than one character ;) > > Not if you encode it properly. After all, with nearly six billion > people on the planet and many of them with multiple personas > (work, home, hobby, anonymous, etcetc), we'll have to go to > multi-multi-multi-byte characters ;-)
Best to work on potential nodes on the Internet than people, then - currently that's 2^32, but IPv6 will increase that to 2^128. However, since a charset has to include language symbols, we'll have to go higher than that to accommodate them. With this in mind, I'll just get started on adding UTF-256 support to mutt.. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/
