On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Kyle Sluder<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Sean McBride<[email protected]> wrote: >> There is no "the" filesystem. HFS may store decomposed, but other >> systems may not. And different file systems have a different set of >> allowable filenames. Some low-ASCII characters are invalid too. > > 99% of users are running HFS+, which is where this problem most often > manifests itself. > >> That might be the best approach, depending on all the usual things. But >> 'high-ASCII' filenames have been acceptable on the Mac for a very long >> time, and do work. > > The problem is that the encoding used in the string literal might not > be that used on disk. HFS+ is documented *not* to normalize input > strings, so this matters.
Where is that documented? <http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2078.html> is pretty explicit that HFS+ is always normalized: "HFS+ disks store file names as UTF-16 in an Apple-modified form of Normalization Form D (decomposed)." -- Clark S. Cox III [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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]
