Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761449AbXEJPDp (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 11:03:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760134AbXEJPDi (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 11:03:38 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:47221 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753153AbXEJPDh (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 11:03:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:59:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> cc: Albert Cahalan , Andrey Borzenkov , hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <8ipOe-5KI-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8ityz-2Xz-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <8iWqS-5Ba-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <8iWKp-619-29@gated-at.bofh.it> <8j4eK-QR-13@gated-at.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 24 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 -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/