Re: [PATCH] normalization tweaks for macOS

[alex xmb ratchev]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 5:55 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 7/18/23 1:39 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 9:55 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> >> Unicode normalization on macOS has always been a pain in the ass.
> >
> > I can see that!
> >
> >> This is the basic assumption that drives all the decisions: character
> input
> >> you get from the terminal is in NFC, and files from the file system
> (names
> >> and usually contents) are in NFD.
> >
> > I guess the point of this patch was that this assumption does not
> > always hold -- neither file system names nor terminal input have any
> > guaranteed normalization.
>
> I should have said keyboard input; pasted text can be NFD, as you show.
>
> So I'll go ahead with your patch, starting with the globbing changes. We're
> already not conformant with POSIX here, so what's a little bit more?
>
> Apple certainly didn't do anyone any favors with this.
>

bad deals .. so sad .. so usual

Chet
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