[Qgis-developer] Fields/attributes

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/25/2013 05:39 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> 1) I don't think there is any limit.  The name is just stored as a QString
> so anything it supports QGIS should too.

It only matters if you plan to export to certain data types, ie 
shapefiles have a quite short naming limit (based on the dbf 
limitations, 10 char I think). I would avoid spaces, underscores and 
other special characters too.

Enjoy,
Alex