[drupal-support] Comment Subject Settings

[Paul]

Dear Gerhard,
 thanks for the reply. Actually i am using the english language 
interface, even though the site is multi-language. But will try to 
create a drupal translation and give it to drupal community...


thanks,
Paul

Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Paul wrote:
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>> I am using drupal on a multi-language site, which supports english and> malayalam. The language malayalam is a multibyte language.
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>Could you provide your translation of Drupal to Mayalam to the Drupalcommunity?
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>>So the> default settings for limiting the length of a subject line is too short> for languages other than english. My question is;
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>The field length of the commet subject field is 64 chars atm. That wouldmake 32 chars for a double-byte langauge which is indeed shart.
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>>How can I change the length of comment subject line?
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>The length of th esubject line is defined in the comment table:
>  subject varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
>You can use phpmyqdmin or the mysql commandline to change this tosomething higher. Maximum is 255.
>You will maybe also need to increase the number of chars you can putinto the forms. Look for form_textfield in comment.module.
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>>Is it a good> practice? What is the effect of this when i want to do an upgrade.
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>The database should be unaffected, you probably need to make the changesto the form fields again.
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>>I am running drupal 4.5.1.
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>You should upgrade to 4.5.3.
>Cheers,	Gerhard
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