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

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2008, 09:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20080123091240.GO14871@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <57518fd10801230102n4f430219p2701c7561f184569@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:02:43AM +0000, Jonathan del Strother wrote:

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> On Jan 23, 2008 8:43 AM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:15:02AM -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> > >
> > > Entirely possible, though renormalizing file contents seems a bit less
> > > likely. I will point out that the text input system in OS X seems to
> > > default to producing NFC (at least, typing `echo 'Märchen' | xxd` in
> > > the Terminal shows that the input string there is NFC).
> >
> > I wonder what happens if you do this:
> >
> > touch 'Märchen'
> > echo M*rchen | xxd -g1
> >
> > Will that produce NFC or NFD?
> >
> 
> 0000000: 4d 61 cc 88 72 63 68 65 6e 0a                    Ma..rchen.

This is NFC! Did you do that on HFS+?

If so, it means that shell on Mac also converts filenames to NFC when it reads them from the disk.

Dmitry