32K wide characters, which are 16-bits each (wchar_t is 16-bits little-endian in Windows).
Which encoding is used under which circumstances can be very complicated - unless you have an all-English install which is normally 8-bit ASCII (iso-8859-1, cp 437). N.B. - the ISO character sets and Windows/DOS code pages existed a number of years before the UTF/Unicode standards. If I remember correctly, the Windows/DOS code pages were based on IBM code pages. Wide characters in Windows were a way to support i18n prior to UTF with something called UCS. Raymond Chen (The Old New Thing blog) has some great posts on the history of these developments. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 10:20 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Holy Frijoles, Batman 64k? I thought it was 32k - or is that the limit of the Native API? Kurt On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 255-char per pathname element (i.e., between the slashes); the buffer is > basically 64 KB, but the number of characters "depends" (ASCII, UTF-8, > UTF-16, etc.). > > This has always been the NTFS limit, but it wasn't exposed to the "shell". > Now, based on a GPO, it is. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Pittigher, Raymond > Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 8:13 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Holy Frijoles, Batman > > What is the new limit? I know that path length in Linux has been 4096 for > quite a while with a 255 byte length for file names. Do they match that now? > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on > behalf of Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 6:06 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Holy Frijoles, Batman > > Wow! I can't wait to try > > C:\ supercalifragilisticexpialidocious\ > pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis\ > pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism\ floccinaucinihilipilification\ > antidisestablishmentarianism\ incomprehensibilities\ uncopyrightable\ > subdermatoglyphic\ sesquipedalianism\ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 4:39 PM > To: ntsysadm; Patch Management Mailing List > Subject: [NTSysADM] Holy Frijoles, Batman > > I've wanted this for 20 years, and now I'm making little girl squee noises in > my brain - I just hope Powershell will be able to use it... > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-removes-260-characters-path-length-limit-in-windows-10-redstone-504596.shtml > > Kurt > > > > > >
