Confusing field names in exported shapefiles

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Description

When one exports a map as a shapefile and opens it in a GIS program, one can see some oddly-named fields. Specifically, "republican", "republican_1", "other part", and "other part_1" are not named similarly to their Democratic analogues, "democrat16" and "democrat20". This is not a problem in the GeoJSON export, which has the fields "republican16", "republican20", "other party16", and "other party20". I believe this is because of the shapefile 10-character limit. Maybe shorten the field names?

Edit: After looking at the field list for longer, I've noticed some other funny cut-short field names. Specifically, "CVAP Nativ", "VAP Pacifi", "CVAP Pacif", "VAP Hispan", "CVAP Hispa", and "compactnes".

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open an existing map, or alternatively create a new map and do a bit of redistricting to get some data
2. Click the "Export" button and export as Shapefile

The following steps are how I found the problem, but they are not necessary. I have not tested this in ArcGIS or any other non-QGIS software but I believe the problem will be the same, because it's with the exported shapefiles themselves.

3. Create a new project in QGIS
4. Layer → Add Layer → Add Vector Layer
5. Type the path of the exported shapefile and press "Add"
6. Click the "Identify Results" tool or do Ctrl + Shift + I
7. Look at the ambiguous field names

Expected behavior

There are unambiguous field names such as "republican16" and "republican20" instead of "republican" and "republican_1" in the exported shapefile.

Actual behavior

There are four confusingly-named fields: "republican", "republican_1", "other part", and "other part_1".

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Your environment

• Browser: Firefox 102.0.1
• QGIS: 3.26.1