Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:

On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Mark Junker wrote:

quoted

IMHO it would be the best solution when git stores all string meta data in
UTF-8 and converts it to the target systems file system encoding. That would
fix all those problems with different locales and file system encodings ...

+1.

And I would suggest the use of RFC 3454 as the guidelines for UTF-8
normalization.

The problem is that there is no way to know what the "target system 
encoding" is.

And it wouldn't actually solve the bigger problem on OS X anyway: as long 
as you are case-insensitive, you'll have all the same problems (ie the 
insane OS X filesystem presumably thinks that "MÄRCHEN" and "Märchen" are 
also identical, because they are "equivalent" names).

			Linus