Category name field width too small for multilingual plugins

[jhodgdon]

Several multilingual plugins require you to put multiple language text into various fields of the WordPress database, such as post titles, content, etc.

There is usually no problem with this, since most of the fields are plenty large to contain two or three versions of the text, along with the language indicator tags. The one exception to this is the field for the name of categories, which is only 55 characters wide. A 200 character field width would be better.

I realize you may not want to apply this patch, but I figured it was worth a try. For now, the work-around has been to instruct plugin users to basically apply this patch manually.

[jhodgdon]

Patch to change the category title field to 200 characters

[rob1n]

To me, this seems like a pretty bad/hacky way to incorporate multiple languages, though I can (sort of) see the use of lengthening the field for category_name and other fields. Or even making them use TEXT fields rather than VARCHAR.

[charleshooper]

Dupe of #3729