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

From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 07:29 UTC
Message-ID: <buo1w8gnc4w.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <427BE4FD-6534-4CB2-91F8-F9014DC82B54@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

> More like, Mac OS X has standardized on Unicode and the rest of the
> world hasn't caught up yet. Git is the only tool I've ever heard of
> that has a problem with OS X using Unicode.

Apple's decision[*] to use _decomposed_ unicode causes all sorts of little problems because other tools aren't expecting to see strings changed behind their backs.

I know little about the gritty details, but I see the bug reports...

-Miles

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