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

Dmitry Potapov:

I am afraid it is you who confuses "characters" with "abstract
characters", there is no place in the standard saying that
"characters" are "abstract characters" only. On contrary, the term
"characters" is used to refer non abstract characters.

Perhaps it's just a case of confusion about naming conventions. I tend
to use "character" as a "grapheme cluster", i.e a "user character" (to
the end user, "ä" and "a"+diaeresis is the same character, no matter if
they would display as different glyphs), whereas some people use
"character" as a "code point", which would be more of a "programmer
character". And then there are some people that still use "character"
interchangibly for "bytes" or "code units" (for UTF-16; a pair of
surrogate code units is still only one "code point").

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