From: Kevin Ballard Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:05:56 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <53C76BEA-2232-4940-8776-9DF1880089A4@sb.org> Yet another bounce. Original CC: martin.langhoff@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, peter@softwolves.pp.se , mjscod@web.de, melo@simplicidade.org On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Jan 22, 2008 11:46 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote: >>> Again, I was talking about a system that used unicode top-to-bottom. >>> On HFS+ you have to use UTF-8 for your filename or it simply won't >>> work. >> >> Hmmm. I m pretty sure HFS+ has a lot of problems if you run OSX as an >> NFS server with clients in different encodings. It would never work >> in >> real life. The "envelope" OSs have to work in is hugely varied -- >> much >> more so than any other apps. You should try writing one someday ;-) > > I'd imagine writing an OS to be a horrifically complicated task. And > yes, I can certainly imagine HFS+ might have issues when used to > back an NFS server with other clients, but that still leads back to > the original point, which is that all these problems stem from the > differences between HFS+ and other filesystems, not any inherent > problem with HFS+ itself. > >>> other words, I was trying to illustrate that HFS+ isn't wrong, it's >>> just different, and the difference is causing the problem. >> >> Did you spot the rather nasty issues that Ted mentioned earlier in >> the >> thread? I would say HFS+ is a bit "special" rather than "different". > > IIRC, the biggest problem he talked about was the changing unicode > standard, but since the technote appears to state that HFS+ will not > be changing its normalization algorithms to preserve backwards > compatibility with existing volumes, that doesn't appear to be a > nasty issue after all. Is there another issue I've failed to address > in this thread? > > -Kevin Ballard > > -- > Kevin Ballard > http://kevin.sb.org > kevin@sb.org > http://www.tildesoft.com > > -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com