Sign character count

[Doug R.]

What is the permissible character count for a sign? I made one, it looked fine, then truncated over night to 233 characters+whitespace. I can PM you details.

[EchoMan]

The database limitation for dynamic names is 255 characters. But the code do some replacements, like replacing the newline (which is one character in Mozilla/FireFox, and two characters in IE) with "<br />", replacing all "<" or ">" with "&lt;" and "&gt;" respectively and so on. So it's very hard calculating manually how many characters will actually get saved.

I guess we could add a JavaScript to the textarea where you fill in the sign content that automagically calculates the remaining characters. It's also a lot easier to just say: 200 chars max! And no special characters.

[Doug R.]

The problem here is that I won't know if it will work until after two days of work. Any chance I can come up with replacement text and have it manually entered into the DB?

[EchoMan]

I'm sure something can be arranged.