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

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:

Well yes, any context in which a string is treated as Unicode instead of an
opaque sequence of bytes will probably lead to normalization at some point
(e.g. when searching text, I'm going to want Märchen and Märchen to be treated
as the same string).

As pointed out (multiple times), this is only true if the programmer is a 
moron.

You do not need to - and *should* not - convert to a common normalization 
in order to compare to Uncode strings. You should just compare them with a 
Unicode-aware comparison routine. It will be faster, and it will avoid 
corrupting the input.

Sadly, stupid people are much too common.

		Linus