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Re: String Encodings and POSIX Commands

Subject: Re: String Encodings and POSIX Commands
From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:03:23 -0800

On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 10:32 PM, Terje Bless <email@hidden> wrote:

The BSD-level interface to the file system uses canonically decomposed
UTF-8.
What is "canonically decomposed"? Normalization Form C?

No, I meant what I said. "Canonical decomposition" is normalization form D. See http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/FileSystem/ File_Encodings_and_Fonts.html for more details.

From Cocoa, however, it is really better to use the NSFileManager and NSString methods I mentioned, because they are specifically defined to produce a representation appropriate for the filesystem, whatever that might be.

Similarly, when using CF it is better to use the CFURL functions that are specifically defined to produce representations appropriate for the filesystem.

Douglas Davidson
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