On 25/12/2015 01:04, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >>> First, I have read the FAQ and this mailing archive :) >>> [..] > >> NAME_MAX is 255. On Windows this is the number of UTF-16 chars >> unfortunately. On POSIX systems (as on Cygwin) this is the >> number of bytes. Long UTF-16 strings in cyrillic take twice as >> much UTF-8 chars as it has UTF-16 chars, so NAME_MAX in utf-8 >> cyrillics translates into a maximum of 127 UTF-16 chars.
Ok, I understand. Thanks for your explanation. > > Aren't POSIX restrictions are a bit different? Namely 128 bytes > per path element and 4096 bytes for file name? Seen the sample file name it seems truncated rather near 256 bytes (~ 128 UTF-16 chars) than 4096 bytes... > >> If you need access to UTF-16 filenames with more characters, you >> can switch to a one-byte charset temporarily, e.g. > >> $ LC_ALL=ru_RU your_app > >> to switch to iso-8859-5 or > >> $ LC_ALL=ru_RU.CP1251 > >> to switch to Windows codepage 1251. See >> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html > > >> HTH, Corinna > > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
