Unicode + long extensions

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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Loren Pechtel
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Unicode + long extensions

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The data: A file with some east asian characters in the name and a long extension. The extension was perfectly ordinary and Windows should have recognized it. I pressed enter.

Result: Windows comes up saying it doesn't know how to run the file. The problem was that it had been shortened to 8.3 format, thus truncating the extension.
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This problem is by design at present because TCmd uses 8.3 filenames for unicode filenames internally. Probably it will be solved with a complete unicode support.

Maybe this is a workaround: use context menu entry 'Open' instead of enter?
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