Re: renaming a file with special/reserved characters in name
Re: renaming a file with special/reserved characters in name
- Subject: Re: renaming a file with special/reserved characters in name
- From: Michael Ash <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:07:35 -0500
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
$ python -c 'open("hello\xaa\xbb\xccworld", "w")';ls
helloª»Ìworld
Tested on 10.5.6 Intel. On 10.4 it evidently just fails.
Mike
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