Character counting discrepancy

[longears]

Using this test scene:

sphere {z*4,1 pigment{rgb x} finish {ambient 1 diffuse 0}}
//--------------------------------------------------
//----------------------------
//------------------------------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------

The text box says "2 characters left" but when I submit it I get the error "Shortcode is too long (maximum is 256 characters)".

This only seems to happen on multi-line scenes so I'd guess newlines are being counted differently in different places: either as one character \n or two characters \r\n.

The test scene is 254 characters if it uses \n and 258 characters if it uses \r\n.

[longears]

(I'm using Chrome 26 on Windows.)

This explains it:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10030921/chrome-counts-characters-wrong-in-textarea-with-maxlength-attribute

[judytuna]

We could manually write in something that looks for newlines and counts them as only one character...? I think we hadn't seen this bug yet because we weren't using newlines (gotta save those chars!) Thanks for the report =D

[longears]

Probably this could be fixed on the Ruby side by replacing \r\n with \n