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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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