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

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2008, 08:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20080120080056.GO14871@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080120070018.GA11015@glandium.org>

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:00:18AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:

> 
> That said, the "decomposed" version of UTF-8 has nice side effects on
> OSX, with UTF-8 encoded RockRidge ISO-9660 volumes (with or without
> Joliet ; OSX will use RockRidge by default when it's there), for instance.

AFAIK, the RockRidge standard prescribes to use the portable character set, and it has nothing to do with Unicode. Basically, it is a subset of ASCII.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap06.html

So, I don't think UTF-8 encoded filenames are valid regardless whether they are decomposed or not.

Dmitry

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