From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:29:19 +0900 Message-ID: References: <478E1FED.5010801@web.de> <427BE4FD-6534-4CB2-91F8-F9014DC82B54@sb.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Mark Junker , git@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 17 08:30:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFPCY-00065n-JN for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:30:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752802AbYAQH3p (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:29:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753379AbYAQH3p (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:29:45 -0500 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:35735 "EHLO tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751713AbYAQH3o (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:29:44 -0500 Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m0H7TK85008653; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:29:20 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:29:20 +0900 Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:29:20 +0900 Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id D48F73A4; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:29:19 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <427BE4FD-6534-4CB2-91F8-F9014DC82B54@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:43:24 -0500") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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] .