From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:57:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Message-ID: <op.utvy5mie1e62zd@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905130951100.3343@localhost.localdomain>

Am 13.05.2009, 19:12 Uhr, schrieb Linus Torvalds  
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:

> Use <stringprep.h> and stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize() or something to  
> do the actual normalization if you find characters with the high bit  
> set. And since I know that the OS X filesystems are so buggy as to not  
> even do that whole NFD thing right, there is probably some OS-X specific  
> "use this for
> filesystem names" conversion function.

Sorry for interrupting, but NF_K_C? You don't want that (K for  
compatibility, rather than canonical, normalization) for anything except  
normalizing temporary variables inside strcasecmp(3) or similar. Probably  
not even that. The normalizations done are often irreversible and also  
surprising. You don't want to turn 2³.c into 23.c, do you?

-- 
Matthias Andree