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

El 19/1/2008, a las 19:58, Linus Torvalds escribió:

I suspect that if we were to just do the "turn into NFC on readdir()  
on OS
X", that might actually be good enough to hide most of the problems.  
The
issue isn't just that OS X mangles the filenames, it's that it picks a
particularly *stupid* way to mangle them (the decomposed forms), which
means that OS X will actually not just corrupt "odd cases" of  
Unicode, but
will corrupt the obvious and *common* Latin1 translations of Unicode.

For what it's worth, their choice wasn't entirely "insane" ie. it did  
have an element of rationality: that decomposed forms are a little bit  
simpler to sort.

Of course, this doesn't excuse them for creating a file system that  
interacts so horridly with basically everything else out there.

Cheers,
Wincent