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

From: Dmitry Potapov <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:06

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:09:43PM +0100, Mark Junker wrote:
Sorry, but you're using different characters that look the same. But 
Kevins point was that it's a different thing if you use two characters 
that look the same or the same character with different encodings.
No, the encoding was the same -- UTF-8. MacOSX converts one sequence of
Unicode characters to *another* sequence, which are canonical equivalent,
but being canonical equivalent does not mean they are the same characters.
In the same way, as being compatible equivalent does not mean being the
same. As well as, being case-insensitive equivalent does not mean being
the same... Do you remember DOS? It stored all filenames in upper-case,
so they original and stored names are case-insensitive equivalent, but
they are not the same!

Dmitry
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