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

Linus Torvalds schrieb:

 - let's say that you have a file "Märchen" on just about *any* other OS 
   than OS X. It could be Latin1 or it could be Unicode, but even if it is 
   Unicode, I can almost guarantee that the 'ä' is going to be the 
   *single* Unicode character U+00e4 (utf-8: "\xc3\xa4", latin1: "\xe4")

   So from a cross-OS standpoint, that's the *common* representation, and 
   yes, you can create the file that way (I don't know what happens if you 
   actually create it with the Latin1 encoding, but I would not be 
   surprised if OS X notices that it's not a valid UTF sequence and 
   assumes it's Latin1 and converts it to Unicode)

FWIW: I just made a test and it seems that MacOS X refuses the creation 
of a file with this invalid name.

Anybody want to creat a compat layer around "readdir()" that does that NFC 
conversion on OS X but not elsewhere?

Maybe I'll try it.

Regards,
Mark