Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters

[Nikolai Weibull]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>

>> /* Bound on the length of a Unicode character name.
>>     As of Unicode 9.0.0 the maximum is 83, so this should be safe. */
>> enum { UNICODE_CHARACTER_NAME_LENGTH_BOUND = 199 };
>> ...
>>     char name[UNICODE_CHARACTER_NAME_LENGTH_BOUND + 1];
>
> Perhaps we should ask on the Unicode mailing list, I somehow remember
> seeing a mandatory limit on the length of a character's name.

No such limit is mentioned in section 4.8.