>We have an application which negotiates with license plates. It is focused to be international. It currently supports Canada, United States and another country. I would like to know how many characters you are usually reserving for such a field in your application knowing that it could be used to store license plates from all over the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plateOn a quick glance the longest strings seem to be for countries that include prefixes e.g. Japan.
Of course your storage will need to support Unicode.
Regards. Al
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