Re: Abandoning darcs

On 2009-03-31, Yves Rutschle <ion-R/na6ne0EH/[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, the biggest problem is Windows users naming
> directories like "Program Files", "Last year's review",
> "Deliveries for this and that", which means the 255
> limitation actually comes up quickly. Then try to convince
> them to use short names and no spaces.

Yeah, it sucks.. but it's coming in Linux too.
I absolutely fucking hate the Desktop directory
that every now and then shows up in ~.
IT'S MY HOME DIRECTORY YOU GNOME FUCKTARDS! DON'T PUT ANYTHING
VISIBLE THERE! I'S ***MIIIINE***, NOT YOURS, YOU  PIECE OF SHIT
RETARDS!! GET IT?!?!?

>> especially as NTFS uses Unicode, so special characters don't 
>> take many bytes as with UTF-8.
>
> Actually I think NTFS uses UTF-16 which is about twice as

NTFS: 255 UTF-16 code points = 510 bytes
ext2: 255 _bytes_ = less than 255 UTF-8 characters even with latin alphabet.

This is what I meant.

Of course, even with UTF-16 you get less than 255 glyphs when
using combining characters and stuff. 

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