Thomas -- ...and then Thomas Hurst said... % % * 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,
Right. % since a charset has to include language symbols, we'll have to go higher % than that to accommodate them. Not only that, but to really do it right you'd have to take into account potential email addresses at potential nodes on the 'net. Maybe 64k addresses per box would do, so we need to multiply by another 2^18 or so. % % With this in mind, I'll just get started on adding UTF-256 support to % mutt.. That oughta be enough for anybody (until the next rollover, so be sure to make your assignments changeable rather than hardcoded ;-) % % -- % Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/ :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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