From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:34:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
Message-ID: <B2D68DE5-4A97-4E89-8C1F-A889380FE32A@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801191659350.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org>

El 20/1/2008, a las 2:04, Linus Torvalds escribió:

> 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).

That's what I get for believing Wikipedia ("This makes sorting far  
simpler"):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Mac_OS_X

Cheers,
Wincent