Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
> John asked:
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> My own rule of thumb for processing UnicodeData.txt is to use 128 bytes
> for transient buffers for names -- which gives me a 99.999% confidence
> feeling that future versions of the data file will never break it.
And that would mean 64 "characters" in UCS-2/UTF-16 ...
So, I presume you are referring to UTF-8?
(Couldn't resist that one, Ken...)
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