testing the post character limit, please ignore

[jerry]

Moderator note: This post has been modified to remove the 64799 characters that Jerry posted in the following fashion for the sole reason to discover the number of characters a post could handle.  Probably the strangest post I've seen since I've been here Jerry. 

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[jerry]

So the character limit per post looks to be 64,799.  They just chop it off after that, without any kind of warning.  Just needed to know.  I’ll delete the thread if I can figure out how.

[Hades]

 
No, please don't! My authistic mind is so triggered right now

[jerry]

No worries, I can’t figure out how to delete the thread anyway.  But interestingly, I do seem to be able to edit the comment to make it longer that what I said in the previous post.

[Hades]

You can't delete on KB.  Ask a mod, or leave it for the ASD guys like me, who are actually genuinely intrigued by this shit

[jerry]

Hmmm.... it appears the limit when editing a post is significantly greater than when initially posting it, if there even is a limit.

[Hades]

PS: KB 'protocol' suggests to make multiple posts, rather than using up what-ever number of characters you may have at your disposal

See also this thread on posting chapters

[Jed_]

Moderator note: This post has been modified to remove the 64799 characters that Jerry posted in the following fashion for the sole reason to discover the number of characters a post could handle.  Probably the strangest post I've seen since I've been here Jerry. 

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Are you sure it’s the strangest thing Jules?  As a rebuttal, I was thinking of posting the alphabet over and over.  And just to be cheeky, the Cyrillic alphabet.

[Hades]

Moderator note: This post has been modified to remove the 64799 characters that Jerry posted in the following fashion for the sole reason to discover the number of characters a post could handle.  Probably the strangest post I've seen since I've been here Jerry. 

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Are you sure it’s the strangest thing Jules?  As a rebuttal, I was thinking of posting the alphabet over and over.  And just to be cheeky, the Cyrillic alphabet.

Go all-in Jed.  You now know there's 64799 characters to play with.  I'd post full character sets in ALL character encodings.  Some of those asian character sets are really pretty 

[staci]

cool.
But the question remains - Why?

[KitKat]

cool.
But the question remains - Why?

Exactly. 

[wayne3218]

And here I was thinking character limit was the ages of my characters in my stories.
I think I better have some more whiskey.

[MintJulie]

cool.
But the question remains - Why?

I took a look in the Board's admin settings, and there is a place for inputting a character limit.   It is set for "Max".   The message board's software must have an internal maximum character limit.

Maximum allowed post size (0 for no max)  :     0    characters

[RopeFiend]

It's a limit of SQL (the database that holds the forum).  There's a limit to how long a text field can be, and going OVER that is a Really Bad Idea which might end in truncation when it cleans the fields next.  I knew it was somewhere around 64K, yet we recommend that authors use somewhat less than that as the text is saved in UTF-8, which means that some special characters can take from 2 to 6 bytes.  If you're a big fan of the right-and-lefthand single or double quote marks, I think those are 4 bytes each.  The 'unisex' single and "double" quotes I've just used are one byte each.  Stuff in the plain ASCII character set is a single byte.  That means you get LESS than the maximum if you're using unusual or international characters.  If you <copy> from MS Word and <paste> here, is uses the UTF characters.