On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> You could use this syntax with win32 api. I used it for opening long >> path and it used byapache on windows. However it will need some >> surgery in order to be used (convert utf8 to ucs2) > > Yes, and this surgery would be overkill for gnulib. 99.9% of all users > and applications never use filenames longer than 160 characters (two lines > in a terminal window).
It will allow to use more unix name (nul will be acceptable, and name ending with space) at the expanse to not beeing deletable in explorer. it is a tradeoff. Bastien > Bruno > -- > In memoriam Ketevan of Mukhrani > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketevan_of_Mukhrani> >
