Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Improve user-experience: character limit on form input fields

I have set a maxlength=200 on forum-new as big as database field length, but using spanish characters like 'tilde' (you know them as html entities: a acute, n tilde...) the html input text limit seems to exceed the database one.

I tried with that title: <span lang="es">Foro con política cerrada, para probar. Además, pondré un título lo más largo posible para garantizar que está funcionando correctamente la última funcionalidad de limitar el tamaño máximo de los títu</span> (that could be translated into something like "Closed policy forum, just for testing. I'm also writing a title as large as possible in order to test the new char limit feature on titles...").

I'm not sure what is happening, and how to fix that, but I think it's due to utf-8 translation into some other codification, i. ex. a pure ascii transliteration will carry a few extra characters: "Foro con pol'itica cerrada, para probar. Adem'as, pondr'e un t'itulo lo m'as largo posible para garantizar que est'a funcionando correctamente la 'ultima funcionalidad de limitar el tama~no m'aximo de los t'itu".

I think that issue should be taken into account.

PS: working with Oracle. I haven't tried that on PG yet.