Hello,

On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:32 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
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> Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org> writes:
>> On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The difference I see between us is that if I tell my filesystem  
>>>> that
>>>> I want to name my file with a particular string encoded in X, users
>>>> using encoding Y will be able to read it correctly. I like my
>>>> filesystem to make that work for me.
>>>
>>> The difference I see between us is that when I tell you that this is
>>> exactly the same thing as your file *contents*, you don't seem to  
>>> get
>>> it.
>>
>> I get that you think its the same thing.
>>
>> What I don't get is why a user should be forced to know what type of
>> encoding he and the other users are using on all the layers going  
>> down
>> to the filesystem. If two users on different systems or in different
>> configurations, choose the same unicode string as the name, why do we
>> need to make it harder for things to just work out?
>
> If you do the normalization in the right place, things will just work
> out.  The file system is not the right place.

No problem, but don't you think that git should to it?

Don't you think its important in a distributed tool that no matter  
what system they use, be it linux or solaris, they are able to talk  
about a file with non-ascii chars and be the same file to both of them?

That's the point I'm making. The fact that I need to set LANG across  
all users of a project is insane...

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>> I'm willing to accept a file system or other layer that normalizes
>> encoding of filenames if that makes the end-user life easier,
>> specially in a tool distributed by nature.
>
> Well, as the issue shows it does not make life for the end-user  
> easier.

I'm assuming you are talking about HFS+ and the strange normalization  
it does.

I'm sorry but that was not the problem I sent. I sent a scenario, in  
which two users, using the same linux system but with different LANG  
settings cannot use git reliably.

Although this thread started because of HFS+ "choices", the problem  
is not really related to HFS+ given that you can have the same issues  
even on the same physical <insert flavor here> POSIX system.

Best regards,
-- 
Pedro Melo
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