Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Oct 3, 2011, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4E8A1197.4050708@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAO1Q+jf=RO=sE90-mQdi+=fUWH1RLM+JTubSgSVGC5uDyhU+2A@mail.gmail.com>

The patch has probably not been applied, because it is not a god one. I have been working on a better version, but that is not 100% ready to be released.

I can post it in a couple of days, (and yes, it does a NFD->NFC conversion in readdir() ) /Torsten On 10/01/2011 02:44 PM, Albert Zeyer wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> There are problems on MacOSX with different UTF8 encodings of
> filenames. A unicode string has multiple ways to be represented as
> UTF8 and Git treats them as different filenames. This is the actual
> bug. It should treat them all as the same filename. In some cases (as
> on MacOSX), the underlying operating system may use a normalized UTF8
> representation in some sort, i.e. change the actual UTF8 filename
> representation.
>
> Similar problems also exists in SVN, for example. This was reported
> [here](http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2464).
> There you can find also lengthy discussions about the topic. And also
> [here](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/unicode-composition-for-filenames).
>
> This was already reported for Git earlier and there is also a patch
> for Git [here](http://lists-archives.org/git/719832-git-mac-os-x-and-german-special-characters.html).
>
> I wonder about the state of this. This hasn't been applied yet. Why?
>
> Regards,
> Albert
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