Last modified: 2006-04-03 11:46:03 UTC
Add to the edit summary <input> a maxlength="200", so that edit summaries won't be cut off in the middle.
The edit summary <input> already has a maxlength of 200 at least since version 1.1.0. Is the problem specific to a particular character set, wiki or browser?
Just a note on this: currently the comment fields in the database have a limit of 255 _bytes_, rather than 255 characters. In UTF-8 encoding, 200 characters can be longer, up to 600 bytes for many Asian languages (800 for pathological cases using very high-numbered characters).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5401 ***
FIXED: See comment #1
For the problem with cutting off all kind of summaries on Special: Recentchanges (due to the mentioned database limit) see Bug 5401.