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

From: Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Jan 18, 2008, 15:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801181626060.817@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <20080118105040.GE14871@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Dmitry Potapov:

> I am afraid it is you who confuses "characters" with "abstract
> characters", there is no place in the standard saying that
> "characters" are "abstract characters" only. On contrary, the term
> "characters" is used to refer non abstract characters.

Perhaps it's just a case of confusion about naming conventions. I tend to use "character" as a "grapheme cluster", i.e a "user character" (to the end user, "ä" and "a"+diaeresis is the same character, no matter if they would display as different glyphs), whereas some people use "character" as a "code point", which would be more of a "programmer character". And then there are some people that still use "character" interchangibly for "bytes" or "code units" (for UTF-16; a pair of surrogate code units is still only one "code point").

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