>Do you think that normalization should be built into the filesystem,
>so you can ask it for the file in any form, and it normalizes it
>internally before looking it up?

Any operating system that doesn't need full SUS compliance and that
handles anything beyond ASCII should do that. Unfortunately, a Unix
operating system can't do that by the standard, and can't really
do in a practical sense without mandating UTF-8. So a Unix filesystem
shouldn't do this. 
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