Handle character fields of length 255 or greater. #44
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According to dBASE documentation the limit of character fields is
254
. The same limit is stated in Esri documentation. However there are shapefiles generate by third party software, that don't follow the specification. In this case character fields of length 255 or greater should be properly handled, even though it's not compliant with the specification.