Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:31:59 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? Message-ID: <199509191331.IAA28290@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199509182019.NAA08435@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <6760.811430864@critter.tfs.com>
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In article <199509182019.NAA08435@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >If your storage encoding, like Plan9, is UTF-8, then the answer is you >can allow them no more than 51 characters for file names, unless you >provide a prohibitively expensive (in terms of interactive response >time) "check" callback for character entry. Why would it be prohibitively expensive? UTF is a simple scheme. I'm sure I could implement a version of UTF file name checking for an entry dialog that was fast enough nobody would notice it in TK, even on a 386, and TCL is no number cruncher.
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