Re: Referring to file by Alias ^or^ path
Re: Referring to file by Alias ^or^ path
- Subject: Re: Referring to file by Alias ^or^ path
- From: Michael Ash <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:22:51 -0400
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote:
>
>> This should be [path fileSystemRepresentation]; Yes, this is UTF-8,
>> but IIRC it puts the string in a certain normalized form before UTF-8
>> encoding it.
>
>
> No, it returns a UTF-8 string. The reason why you should use
> -fileSystemRepresentation is so your program won't break if a different
> encoding is used to access file systems in a future version of the OS.
There's no reason for the "no" there. It returns a UTF-8 string, yes,
but after normalizing the Unicode to the kernel's preferred form.
This step is unnecessary and pointless (although it was useful on
really old OS X versions where the kernel's normalization routines
didn't always handle everything correctly) but it is there last I
checked....
Mike
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