Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jay Soffian [off-list ref] wrote:

To be consistent, shouldn't we have a core.HFSPlusCompat that can be
set on non-braindamaged filesystems to prevent filenames which would
alias on HFS+ from entering the repo?

  http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#UnicodeSubtleties

And here's an implementation (BSD-style license):

  http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/base/file_path.cc

See GetHFSDecomposedForm and HFSFastUnicodeCompare.

C++ so it'll require adapting.

j.