[VM] non-MacRoman file names

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Wed Nov 26 21:25:45 UTC 2003


In testing the support for non-roman character sets for file names, I  
realized/discovered in my
testing that if you pick unicode or UTF-8, then the maximum size for a  
file name can be upwards of 512 bytes.

Alas lots of assumptions/code that considers that 256 bytes is maximum  
for a file/folder name. Somehow
  I thought I was done, but now I've got possible VM changes and more  
fiddling to do.

However I suspect I'll release a 3.7.0bx real soon which will have a  
limitation of 128 bytes for a
unicode file name.
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