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

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2008, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20080121204330.GX14871@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CFF9E74C-4A4C-4E5F-8DA3-662D80095503@sb.org>

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:59:24AM -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> 
> No, it's a question of hashing algorithm. And it's one that's fairly  
> easily solved simply by picking a specific nonambiguous UTF-8 encoding  
> before hashing.

UTF-8 is a *single* encoding, and it maps every Unicode character to a unique binary representation. So, it is completely nonambiguous.

Dmitry

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