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

> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>>
>> For what it's worth, their choice wasn't entirely "insane" ie. it  
>> did have an
>> element of rationality: that decomposed forms are a little bit  
>> simpler to
>> sort.
>
> No they are *not*.
>
> In many languages, 'ä' does *not* sort like 'a' at all, and if you  
> think
> it does, you'll sort at least Finnish and Swedish totally wrong (åäö  
> are
> real letters, and they sort at the *end* of the alphabet, they have
> nothing what-so-ever to do with the letters 'a' or 'o').
>
> The fact that in *some* languages the decomposed forms sort as the  
> base
> letter is immaterial. It's only true in some cases.
>
> So no, sort order is not it. To sort right, you need to use the a real
> Unicode sort (and the decomposed form is *not* going to help you one  
> bit,
> quite the reverse).