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Re: Too many characters

Subject: Re: Too many characters
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:29:38 -0600

Christopher Nebel reported ...

That depends on the volume format -- it might be as few as eight. However, the usual file system is HFS+, for which the answer is 255 UTF-16 code units. (See <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/ tn1150.html#HFSPlusNames>.) Because of various Unicode subtleties (notably decomposition; see "Unicode Subtleties" on the same page), the number of "characters" might be much less than that.

2. What is the maximum number of characters in a file comment?
I don't believe this is documented anywhere, but I'll look into it.

TN1150 seems to be exactly the document I needed. I'm going to limit file names to 32 chars and comments to 64 chars because more than that is too much to read easily. This means that I will temporarily use 32 + 1 + 64 = 97 Unicode chars for the comment, which I think is safe. (At least the script is now working very well!) I took a quick look at "Unicode Subtleties" and I think I will have to read this in detail. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Applescript-users mailing list (email@hidden) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: This email sent to email@hidden Prev by Date: diskutil in shell script not working Next by Date: Re: Finding a file Previous by thread: Re: Too many characters Next by thread: Finding a file Index(es): Date Thread