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Limitations on llEscapeURL & Byte-Size Oversights
Christopher Omega
Oxymoron
Join date: 28 Mar 2003
Posts: 1,828
04-21-2006 20:25
LL,
Is the 254 character return value a deliberate limit placed on llEscapeURL? If so, why?
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llEscapeURL

Is the 255 byte limit on llSay/llWhisper/llShout also deliberate? If so, why are there no functions that allow us to get the size in bytes of a string? (Non ASCII unicode characters look like one character to llStringLength, but use more then one byte)

Will LSL's support for Unicode be expanded in the future?
==Chris
Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
04-25-2006 18:37
Going to ask about this, Chris. Thanks for waiting.
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Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
04-26-2006 07:42
Looking at the wiki page, the indication is that this is a new limitation on llEscapeURL. If that is so, it is most probably a bug.

I'm not sure about the llSay etc. limit.

An llGetByteLength sounds like a good feature suggestion, but I don't know when it may be implemented.
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- Kelly Linden