Problem with column-name 11 chars long about fastdbf HOT 2 OPEN

The dBaseIV standard for field names defines a maximum length of 10 characters, all capitals, with no blanks or special characters other than the underscore. So probably an exception should be thrown if the maximum length is exceeded.

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perhaps an exception would probably be the right approach, however given the current behavior this might break other projects using this library. at least a warning would suffice for now.

on other projects dealing with this kind of issues, we had better experience with trimming the headers' names, in case of duplicates, append windows-style "~1", "~2", "~3", suffixes.

in case of some gdal tools, they simply just trim the header and log a warning.

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