Is there any limit on what I can put in the Customer notes field?

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> David,
>
> You can put any text you like in the Notes field, but make sure that
> it's legitimate XML PData: Use the & and < entities if you need
> to use those characters, and don't try to put any additional markup in
> it. The only size limitation would be imposed by the GUI, which uses a
> GtkTextBuffer to hold it. That exposes functions that index bytes (the
> encoding is assumed to be utf8) and return ints, so you're limited to
> 2^31 characters. That should be sufficient for your needs.

If you're editing through the UI then I *THINK* you should be okay and
wouldn't need to encode the strings -- that de/encoding should happen
during the save/load process.

> Regards,
> John Ralls 

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-derek

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