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Originally posted by aadnk
My point is that this would very unlikely be a problem if the user's nickname was truncated the same way as in the log.
No, it still would be a problem. The nick shown on the conversation lines can also be the custom name from that contact...
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Originally posted by aadnk
And I don't really see what compatibility-problems such a change would result in.
backwards compatibility problems with existing software to parse the text logs (eg: the Logviewer from Lopardo to name one, and this isn't the only program which uses the text logs)