Everything ignores files with over 127 UTF-8 characters

[shmidman]

I just realized that Everything has been ignoring some of my files. Upon inspection, I found that it specifically regards relatively long filenames with non-English (UTF-8 encoded) filenames. As we know, NTFS allows filenames until 255 characters or so, where each character can be any valid UTF-8 character. However, I found that everything stops handling UTF-8 filenames when they hit 128 characters.
For instance, I created a filename consisting of 127 Hebrew characters. This filename was listed in Everything. I then renamed the file, adding a single extra Hebrew character to the filename. The file now disappeared from Everything's window, and Everything's total count of files went down by one.
It would seem, perhaps, that Everything has a buffer of 255 bytes, rather than 255 UTF-8 characters; and thus, as soon as a filename includes double-byte characters in UTF-8, Everything runs out of room at the 128th character.

[void]

This is a known issue.

Filenames in Everything are limited to 255 bytes.
This limit is about 85 - 255 characters depending on the number of bytes used to encode as UTF8.

This limitation has been removed for the next release of "Everything".

[shmidman]

Thanks for the update. Is there a beta available that incorporates the fix?

[void]

Unfortunately, No. There is no update yet..

[shmidman]

Hi void,

It's been almost a year since this bug was last discussed... Would you please consider releasing the Everything code as an open source model so that we can fix the bug?

For those of us who use non-English characters in filenames, this UTF-8 filename limitation is absolutely debilitating, since it means that we can never really know if the results are exhaustive or not... I imagine that the fix is not much more than a constant DEFINE value somewhere in the code, so if you'd release source, we could fix that and recompile.

[shmidman]

New version fixes this completely.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!