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From: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:57:12 +0200
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Am 13.05.2009, 19:12 Uhr, schrieb Linus Torvalds =20
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:

> Use <stringprep.h> and stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize() or something =
to =20
> do the actual normalization if you find characters with the high bit =
=20
> set. And since I know that the OS X filesystems are so buggy as to no=
t =20
> even do that whole NFD thing right, there is probably some OS-X speci=
fic =20
> "use this for
> filesystem names" conversion function.

Sorry for interrupting, but NF_K_C? You don't want that (K for =20
compatibility, rather than canonical, normalization) for anything excep=
t =20
normalizing temporary variables inside strcasecmp(3) or similar. Probab=
ly =20
not even that. The normalizations done are often irreversible and also =
=20
surprising. You don't want to turn 2=C2=B3.c into 23.c, do you?

--=20
Matthias Andree