Bug 27732

Summary:	Need API telling max length of messages
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes>
Component:	tp-spec	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	om26er
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2010-04-19 02:01:07 UTC

On some protocols (MSN and Yahoo at least), you can't send messages longer than $MAX_SIZE. We should have API telling that to clients.

This blocks: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616079

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2010-04-19 03:42:04 UTC

Would it be nicer to UIs if the CMs for these protocols quietly split up the messages, like telepathy-idle does?

Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-04-19 04:52:36 UTC

I guess that could be an acceptable solution.

Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2010-11-08 08:44:31 UTC

Relatedly: in SMS there's a character-count limit, but using Unicode "costs" more characters than ASCII, and splitting the message costs you more money. :-(

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