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PM size limit?
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 1 Goggle Fox, 19th Sep '09 1:16:41 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Do we have one, and if so, what is it? I feel like I've accidentally broken it recently. Some messages aren't getting through.
Fight it, people! You can do it!
 2 Fast Eddie, 19th Sep '09 1:34:19 PM from Nassau, Bahamas
avatar: FastEddie
true gort
The limit is 64K characters. Unlikely you've tried to exceed it.
Goal: clear, concise, and witty Acceptable: clear
 3 Goggle Fox, 19th Sep '09 2:36:25 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
That's what I thought it'd be — SQL TEXT type limit. And nope, I sent something just under 4K, twice. It never made it to its destination. I also found out that the character ❚ doesn't display on the forums, and presumably not on the wiki either. P Ms. Not sure if you really care to fix that, it has very limited usage.

edited 19th Sep '09 2:38:17 PM by GoggleFox

Fight it, people! You can do it!
 4 Tzetze, 19th Sep '09 2:37:51 PM from The Other Rainforest
avatar: Tzetze
DUMB
If that's supposed to be a black dingbat block, I can see it fine.
 5 Goggle Fox, 19th Sep '09 2:38:40 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Struck, and fixed. It won't show in a PM. Might or might not be part of what broke it.
Fight it, people! You can do it!
 6 Goggle Fox, 19th Sep '09 3:20:55 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Double postage! Well, Fast Eddie might want to know about this, if he wants to fix a little bug.

Something in the PM script seems to convert special characters like that into &stuff; HTML entities. This somehow disrupts PM sending. Whether sizes larger than I don't know how many characters causes a problem or not, I'm not sure, but either way, I have either three or four PMs in my box that apparently haven't made it to their destinations, but say they've been sent by me.

edited 19th Sep '09 3:21:39 PM by GoggleFox

Fight it, people! You can do it!
The system doesn't know you right now, so no post button for you.
You need to Get Known to get one of those.

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