Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 8.1 Long Filenames
From: Donald L. Nash (D.Nash@utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 18:32:38 EST
--On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 6:02 PM -0500 "Juan Fernando" <juan@mojo.calyx.net>
wrote:
> It uses Unicode internally for file names, that's how it supports longer
> file names.
Uh, no. HFS+ uses Unicode internally to support a richer character set for
file names. Longer file names are supported by allowing file names to
occupy more space (256 2-byte Unicode characters). Longer file names could
have been supported just as easily by keeping the current 1-byte extended
ASCII character set and allowing for 256 of those characters instead of 256
Unicode characters. I suppose that Apple chose Unicode because they decided
that it makes more sense to use a modern character set.
++Don Nash
Internet: D.Nash@utexas.edu University of Texas System
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