>I believe the disk format supports 255 unicode filenames, but OS support 
>for it isn't here yet.  I think we're waiting on Apple for that. 

The word I've heard from the Apple tech notes and so on is that the OS 
handles the long filenames just fine, but the Finder can't display or 
edit names longer than 31 characters.

Plus there are of course many applications which will have problems with 
the longer names...

-Mars