Brad,

When I enter HTML characters into dialogue boxes, the full length of the code counts as the length of the character. For example, when I use the code for a non-breaking space,  , it treats it as six characters instead of just one, reducing the amount of dialogue I can enter when I try to use it to get longer lines. Also, in a recent strip, I had Babelfish translate the dialogue to Russian, and since Russian uses a different alphabet, it used a 7-character code for each individual Russian character. This considerably lengthened the text of my dialogue from what I pasted in, and a few words got cut off.

When you measure the length of dialogue text, could you use a routine that recognizes HTML characters as single characters?

I imagine he limits the text according to the space it takes up in the database, not by the actual amount of written space it shows on the screen. I could be wrong, though.

Yeah but he could probably make it store HTML codes as just a single character, which is then decompressed into the full code when you view the comic. Doubt it'd be worth the bother, though.