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@BetterRed
Neato! It is good that the DB in Calibre only manipulates pointers, and thus is kept quite small even with very large subject sets.
It does seem like you were mixing de jure & de facto. Jure has some basis in law or codification, and facto just has a basis in practice.
The four in practice violations i was bemoaning make it more difficult for an individual, be he a regular user or a programmer, to port files and pathnames, especially across systems. While it may be true that there is a standard that allows filenames to be up to 32k in size, what practical use is it? And further how portable would it be? Even 256 character filenames cause errors! A name should be visible and type able.
In another area at least uSoft is now backing off their insistent use of spaces in most folder names (My Junk, etc), thank god. Word break characters in the middle of a name require quotes all over to guard against them.
The extra layer of folder naming (with mixed case and a word break!) that Calibre puts in for every library causes one to be unable to see the actual name one applied and gives the confusion of apparent sameness.
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