On 16 May 2017, at 17:07, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: > >>>> HFS(+), NTFS and VFAT long filenames are all encoded in some variation on >>>> UCS-2/UTF-16. ... >>> >>> The filesystem directory is using octet sequences and does not bother >>> passing over an encoding, I am told. Someone could remember one that to >>> used UTF-16 directly, but I think it may not be current. >> >> No, that’s not true. All three of those systems store UTF-16 on the disk >> (give or take). > > I am not speaking about what they store, but how the filesystem identifies > files.
Well, quite clearly none of those systems treat the UTF-16 strings as binary either - they’re case insensitive, so how could they? HFS+ even normalises strings using a variant of a frozen version of the normalisation spec. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net
