Re: File name issue with German umlauts
Re: File name issue with German umlauts
- Subject: Re: File name issue with German umlauts
- From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:27:21 -0600
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Ulf Dunkel <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Stephen.
>
>>> My issue:
>>> When I search for an existing folder named "äöütest", it isn't found,
>>> until
>>> I enter the search string not via keyboard to a search field in my app,
>>> but
>>> copy it from the folder name in the Finder and paste it to the search
>>> field
>>> in my app.
>>
>> Some code here would help figure out what is wrong.
>
> Well, it's not really *my* app, so I cannot provide code right now. :-)
The quick and dirty: in Unicode there is more than one way to
represent "ä". You can represent it as "ä" or "a" followed by a
special 'character' umlaut. There might be more, I'm not that much of
an expert. Which form you use is call the normal form:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
The OS X filesystem API's expect only one (IIRC Normal-D). If you use
all the proper APIs and modern conventions you won't have a problem.
If you don't understand things and use the wrong APIs, do some
destructive intermediary conversions, or use old APIs then things
won't always work like they are supposed to. My *guess* is that when
you type it in you get Normal-C and when you copy it from Finder you
get Normal-D.
But that's just a guess.
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