On Aug 23, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:

Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit at apple dot com> wrote:

FYI, by far the largest source of text in NFD (decomposed) form in
Mac OS X is the file system. File names are stored this way (for
historical reasons), so anything copied from a file name is in (a
slightly altered form of) NFD.

"Slightly altered"?


Yes, the specification for the Mac file system was frozen before NFD had been developed by the UTC, so it isn't exactly the same. But it's close.


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