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

"Martin Langhoff" [off-list ref] writes:

(slightly offtopic) are you praising UTF-8 as storage format (for disk
and network) or in general? UTF-8-aware string ops like counting
characters seem to me a horrendous thing at the ASM level.

Huh?  Why?  Just count all characters in the range 00-bf.  That's the
exact character count of utf-8 characters.

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