[Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

FT2 ft2.wiki at gmail.com
Sat Feb 12 12:25:27 UTC 2011


People will want to link to permalinks.

8 chars, 64 character set (a-z A-Z 0-9 and 2 others). Unlikely to run out
for the foreseeable future.

FT2


On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jiri Hofman <hofmanj at aldebaran.cz> wrote:

> Since (26*2+10)**5 = 916132832 , five chars should be enough for all
> articles for ever.
>
> If some universal url shortener was created, for example http://wmf.org/ ,
> then 7 chars (3521614606208) would be enough for all projects. If not, the
> 8th char can always be added.
>
> Jiri
>


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