From: Miles Bader Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:29:19 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <427BE4FD-6534-4CB2-91F8-F9014DC82B54@sb.org> Kevin Ballard 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 -- Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space, to have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less, than nine score degrees, should he so wish. [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR] .