Re: Unicode trivia

From: John Wilcock (john@tradoc.fr)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 03:18:06 EDT

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On Sat, 6 May 2000 08:09:49 -0800 (GMT-0800), Doug Ewell wrote:
> Recently while writing a C program that reads UnicodeData.txt, I needed
> to determine the longest character name. The winner (83 characters):
>
> U+FBF9 ARABIC LIGATURE UIGHUR KIRGHIZ YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE WITH ALEF
> MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM

Out of curiosity, and perhaps of more importance than the current
longest name, is there a specified length limit which names are
guaranteed not to exceed?

John.

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