Continuing the discussion from Should we change the minimum characters required to post?:
It seems the system is counting one Chinese word as one Character.
It will make a suitable length limit for, say English, can be too long for Chinese contents.
This applies to both Subject and body.
Hmmm. I doubt there is a good way to do this without changing it globally. What would be reasonable limits for Chinese posts?
Before Unicode , one Chinese word is a double byte character.
Hence Subject can be 8 Chinese words and body can be 25 Chinese words.
I know some forums will not set a special limit for Chinese as the platform do not have an easy way to do so.
Yeah, this one doesn’t have a way to distinguish. What limit would be a reasonable one? I don’t think we have a huge problem with posts being too short in English, so we could consider changing it globally to make it make sense for logographic scripts.
8 Chinese words in Subject and 25 in Body.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood before. Yeah, let’s go ahead and try that!
Note there is also this setting:
and I’ve left it at 10 because of the note that “non-english [characters] count for more”. Please let me know how that works with short but reasonable Chinese titles.
By trying to create a new topic, the lower limit I got are the same for English and Chinese character counts.
Title: 8
Body: 25
The min of 10 “entropy” is not the same of text length. And Chinese and English counted the same in my simple test wtih:
Chinese:
Title:
一二三四五六七八
Body:
一二三四五六七八九十一二三四五六七八九十一二三四五
English:
Title:
12345678
Body:
1234567890123456789012345
