Any Harm or Risk Publishing Short ASCII html names?

Hello there,

To save time in having to carefully name all my Lectora pages, chapters, etc. for a possible 40 character limit (strings exceeding 40 characters cause an error on our server) - I've been using the publish short ASCII names option for my HTML and SCORM output. There seems to be some debate as to whether or not this is a good practice (process has been described as using "automated renaming of files").

To me, since Lectora performs several automation processes that rename files on output - and because it will publish to short ASCII names in the case of duplicate file names - using the short ASCII names seems like a harmless, and possibly even a better way to go if lengthy file names cause performance issues either during a server transfer or at run time.

The only issue I know of with long file names is that if the file depths and names are so long that the paths between the original file location and HTML or SCORM output folder exceeds 255 characters, Lectora will give you a publish error. Likewise, if the server character limitation is exceeded, files may not transfer across the Network (when moving files via Network folders) - which may depend on the server configuration itself in addition to restrictions inherent in the server type.

Has anyone had problems with the ASCII output (other than having it happen when it is unwanted) or know if the ASCII publish option is more error prone for any reason?

I appreciate any advice or feedback anyone has. Thanks!