From: Kevin Ballard Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:53:10 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080121204330.GX14871@dpotapov.dyndns.org> On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > 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. In this case, encoding refers to normalization form, as other people have used it in the conversation besides me. I suggest you stop trying to find inconsequential stuff to argue about, especially when a tiny bit of critical thinking would reveal the answer. -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com