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Re: renaming a file with special/reserved characters in name
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Re: renaming a file with special/reserved characters in name


  • Subject: Re: renaming a file with special/reserved characters in name
  • From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:35:28 -0800

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Martin Wierschin <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 2009.02.27, at 5:58 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
>
>> HFS+ only accepts non-UTF-8 by URL-encoding (!) the non-UTF-8 bytes
>
> Wow, that's pretty horrific.

It also isn't really correct. HFS+ doesn't use UTF-8 it uses and
stores Unicode (fully decomposed and in canonical order).

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#HFSPlusNames

I don't think URL encode ever comes into play in HFS+ or in the POSIX
APIs that takes UTF-8 (decomposed) paths... not sure what Michael is
talking about.

-Shawn
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