On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:52 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> If you have applications that "don't work" when you have Unicode
> filenames, it's a telltale sign that they are not using
> g_filename_to_utf8() and g_filename_from_utf8() correctly:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#file-name-encodings
>
> I'd be interested in knowing of applications that use this API properly,
> but that still have problems with composed/decomposed names. In that
> case, we may need to explicitly normalize inside those functions: they
> are the central point of change between UTF-8 (GNOME's encoding for
> strings) and the file system's own encoding.
>
> [Those functions don't normalize currently; maybe they need to... do you
> have a reproducible bug?]
NO! They should not normalize! Then you can't open a file that has an
unnormalized filename.
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