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From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:00:56 +0300
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:00:18AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> That said, the "decomposed" version of UTF-8 has nice side effects on
> OSX, with UTF-8 encoded RockRidge ISO-9660 volumes (with or without
> Joliet ; OSX will use RockRidge by default when it's there), for instance.

AFAIK, the RockRidge standard prescribes to use the portable character
set, and it has nothing to do with Unicode. Basically, it is a subset of
ASCII.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap06.html

So, I don't think UTF-8 encoded filenames are valid regardless whether
they are decomposed or not.

Dmitry