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

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2008, 00:11 UTC
Message-ID: <B4FDA32F-16C9-497A-AAD8-27A8D510C4CB@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801191026500.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org>

El 19/1/2008, a las 19:58, Linus Torvalds escribió:

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> I suspect that if we were to just do the "turn into NFC on readdir()  
> on OS
> X", that might actually be good enough to hide most of the problems.  
> The
> issue isn't just that OS X mangles the filenames, it's that it picks a
> particularly *stupid* way to mangle them (the decomposed forms), which
> means that OS X will actually not just corrupt "odd cases" of  
> Unicode, but
> will corrupt the obvious and *common* Latin1 translations of Unicode.

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.

Of course, this doesn't excuse them for creating a file system that interacts so horridly with basically everything else out there.

Cheers, Wincent