Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: May 20, 2010, 18:22 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilIqY0760KpZbGrv3jyZLT1e0CbkvKF3lbYB5la@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:

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> To be consistent, shouldn't we have a core.HFSPlusCompat that can be
> set on non-braindamaged filesystems to prevent filenames which would
> alias on HFS+ from entering the repo?
>
>   http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#UnicodeSubtleties

And here's an implementation (BSD-style license):

  http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/base/file_path.cc

See GetHFSDecomposedForm and HFSFastUnicodeCompare.

C++ so it'll require adapting.

j.