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Re: saving files/folders in foreign language names
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Re: saving files/folders in foreign language names


  • Subject: Re: saving files/folders in foreign language names
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:55:25 -0700

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Sean McBride<email@hidden> wrote:
> There is no "the" filesystem.  HFS may store decomposed, but other
> systems may not.  And different file systems have a different set of
> allowable filenames.  Some low-ASCII characters are invalid too.

99% of users are running HFS+, which is where this problem most often
manifests itself.

> That might be the best approach, depending on all the usual things.  But
> 'high-ASCII' filenames have been acceptable on the Mac for a very long
> time, and do work.

The problem is that the encoding used in the string literal might not
be that used on disk.  HFS+ is documented *not* to normalize input
strings, so this matters.

--Kyle Sluder
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