Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:56:07 -0400 | Subject | Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:18:06PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:04 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Most people seem happy with 50 or so being a good limit even though many > > systems support much longer. > > 50 characters or 50 bytes? Because in the case of UTF-8, if you do a lot of > three byte characters (which require four bites to encode), 50 bytes is very > short.
I would think most languages that need 2 or 3 bytes per character would need a lot less characters, although I think I can think of a few cases where that isn't true.
Well how about making it '50 characters seems plenty for most people to be happy'. If you can handle a couple hundred bytes that should be ok, and I think most filesystems can.
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