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

Hi,

On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Too many people confuse "character" and "glyph". They are different.

This is very true.

The fact is that "equivalent" does not mean "same". Why cannot people
accept that?

I'll shut up now if you can answer me one question,  because it  
really is a problem for my team.

We have people using windows, people using Macs, and people using  
several flavors of Linux desktops. They all have different settings  
and if I add a file like áéióú that happens to be UTF-8 encoded, it  
will reach a iso-latin-1 user as visual garbage. git will track the  
file perfectly, we know that, because the sequence of bytes that my  
system used to create the file will be the same on all "sane"  
systems, but the file will look "funny" to some users, and we get  
complaints for some less enlightened ones.

The answer is that users should not create filenames with non-ascii  
characters if they want a consistent experience, right?

This is just so that I can write a best practices document to them...

Best regards,
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Pedro Melo
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