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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#1824) charset discussion
From: "Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:18:11 -0700
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<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1824 >

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Raimar Falke wrote:

> > The simpler solution is, however, to just note that we have a fixed length
> > buffer and a variable number of characters. If you use characters that
> > need more bytes, the maximum length of your string is shorter.
>
> Sorry but this just screams for problems in the future.

You should have learned by know that nothing anyone programs will be a
perfect solution for ever. :-)

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa
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