From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:54:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-email: rfc2047-quote subject lines with non-ascii characters
Message-ID: <200803291354.47269.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080329094322.GA21814@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Den Saturday 29 March 2008 10.43.22 skrev Jeff King:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:39:43AM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> > > Because some UTF-8 sequences have multiple representations, and that
> >
> > Care to give an example?
>
> There were several given in the "OS X normalize your UTF-8 filenames"
> thread a while back. They generally boil down to "a<UMLAUT MODIFIER>"
> versus "<A WITH UMLAUT>" both of which are valid UTF-8.

That is what /OS X/ does with file names. It changes one unicode code point
to a sequence of other "equivalent" code points. I'm pretty sure perl does
not do that.

-- robin