On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Nick Zitzmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: > >> This should be [path fileSystemRepresentation]; Yes, this is UTF-8, >> but IIRC it puts the string in a certain normalized form before UTF-8 >> encoding it. > > > No, it returns a UTF-8 string. The reason why you should use > -fileSystemRepresentation is so your program won't break if a different > encoding is used to access file systems in a future version of the OS.
There's no reason for the "no" there. It returns a UTF-8 string, yes, but after normalizing the Unicode to the kernel's preferred form. This step is unnecessary and pointless (although it was useful on really old OS X versions where the kernel's normalization routines didn't always handle everything correctly) but it is there last I checked.... Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
