linux-kernel - Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 16:59:44 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
cc:	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8


On May 10 2007 16:49, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>
>Just because you limit yourself to 80 chars minus "ls -l"-clutter, this is
>no reason why I shouldn't use long filenames. If I need to handle these
>filenames, I can enlarge the terminal window or read the next line.
>
>E.g.: I have a music file named "artist - title.ext", where the artist
>name is 103 characters long, using abbreviations. In order to enter that
>name, I have to press seven keys, including the escape character.
>There is nothing unreasonable in using that name.

What name would that be? I cannot dream up any IME that outputs _that_
many characters for that few keystrokes. Even with CJ(K), 7 keystrokes can
make at most 21 bytes if I had to take a good guess.


	Jan
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