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

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To: Theodore Tso <tytso@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <git@...>, Kevin Ballard <kevin@...>
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:41 am

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:33:25PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:

There must be something at the VFS layer, or some other layer:
- IIRC, Joliet iso9660 volumes end up being mounted with files names in
  NFS when the real file names are NFC on the disk.
- Likewise for Samba shares.
- When I had my problems with iso9660 rockridge volumes using NFC (you
  can create that just fine with mkisofs), the volume is mounted without
  normalisation, i.e. if you get to a shell and want to access files,
  you must use NFC, but at least the Finder does transliteration at some
  stage, because going into the mount point and opening some files fail
  because it's trying to open the file with the name transliterated to
  NFD. I just hope the same doesn't happen with other filesystems.

Also, OSX using NFD widely, a file created from non Unix applications
may end up being named in NFD on any file system. File contents, too,
may end up being transliterated whenever a file is modified with non
Unix applications, introducing unwanted changes.
Typing file names in the Terminal might also make them encoded in NFD,
too.

Mike
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Messages in current thread:
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Mike Hommey, (Wed Jan 23, 2:41 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jan 23, 12:16 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Wed Jan 23, 7:37 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Jonathan del Strother, (Wed Jan 23, 5:02 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Tue Jan 22, 9:27 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Tue Jan 22, 9:14 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Tue Jan 22, 9:47 pm)
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