From: Peter Karlsson Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:30:24 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: 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, "รค" 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"). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/