[bbDev] Permalinks Plugin - Changing Mod Rewrite Rules

[Michael D Adams]

On Mar 18, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Sam Bauers wrote:

> Had to make some changes to the patch after testing utf8 out a bit  
> more. Basically the slugs are stored as sanitized strings, which  
> means that utf8 strings become three times the size of the title/ 
> name in the database. That means they go beyond 255 chars which  
> means they have to be 'text' column types, which means they can't  
> be keyed as unique.

I'll talk to Ryan Boren abut how WordPress does this to see if we can  
get back to varchar.  WordPress doesn't url_encode things like  
bbPress does, but it also doesn't handle UTF8 strings as well.

Thanks!
Michael