Too large error

[Steve VanSlyck]

Truncation is what Yahoo does, and the result on the screen is  
obvious. I suggest we let Yahoo do the testing and just send the  
message.

forums at david-woolley.me.uk wrote:

> David Woolley wrote:
>> yaip wrote:
>>> I'm not too sure what you mean by service. I'm just chatting to someone on
>>> who is on Yahoo. Is Yahoo a service you mean?
>>>
>>
>> Yahoo is the service.  You are not just chatting to someone on Yahoo,
>
> In the case of Yahoo, Pidgin imposes the limit, but that limit is the
> limit used by the official Yahoo client.  Although you could recompile
> Pidgin, to change the limit, the result is likely to be rejection or
> truncation by Yahoo.
>
> This is the relevant part of the source code (there is a second limit
> check, but this is the one that is likely to be triggered normally):
>
> pidgin-2.5.8/libpurple/protocols/yahoo/yahoo.h lines 190 et. seq.
>
> /*
>  * Current Maximum Length for Instant Messages
>  *
>  * This was found by experiment.
>  *
>  * The YMSG protocol allows a message of up to 948 bytes, but the
> official client
>  * limits to 800 characters.  According to experiments I conducted, it
> seems that
>  * the discrepancy is to allow some leeway for messages with mixed   
> single- and
>  * multi-byte characters, as I was able to send messages of 840 and 932 bytes
>  * by using some multibyte characters (some random Chinese or Japanese
> character
> s,
>  * to be precise). - rekkanoryo
>  */
> #define YAHOO_MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH_BYTES 948
> #define YAHOO_MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH_CHARS 800
>
>
> -- 
> David Woolley
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>
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