- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:04:17 +0200
- To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- CC: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> >>> A file system supporting Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16) >>> should be able to store about 50 or 75 code points. >> >> Not sure how you come to that conclusion. For NTFS, the limit depends >> on the API which is used and is either 64 or "unlimited" (I think). > > On NTFS it's most certainly 255 characters or 248 for directory element > names. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx > On linux today, it's typically 255 characters (NAME_MAX). For Linux, that counts octets, not characters, right? So with UTF-8 encoding in use (would that be the case in Asia?), this would mean ~85 characters. What about HFS+? BR, Julian
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