Why Attribute name length in QGIS is limited to 10 characters?

Question

In QGIS software, a vector layer has "attribute" but the name length is limited to only 10 Characters.

Is there any method to name an "attribute" to a longer name? (e.g. attribute name "building name" becomes "building n")

example1

My layer define dialog window is as below

example2

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Nathan W · Answer 1 · 2012-03-13T08:48:01.853

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This is a (bad) limitation of the ESRI Shapefile format.

Not much you can do with it but change the underlying format, maybe try SpatiaLite.

edited Mar 13 '12 at 08:48

answered Mar 13 '12 at 08:41

Nathan W

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Just for clarity, the limitation is directly tied to the DBF file format, which the shapefile format happens to implement. As stated above, if you need/want longer file names, you'll need to choose a different storage format. – RyanKDalton Mar 13 '12 at 15:09

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