Re: [Python-3000] Filename: unicode normalization

2008-09-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Bad news: it looks like Linux doesn't normalize filenames. So if you used NFC > to create a file, you have to reuse NFC to open your file (and the same for > NFD). That's not news to me. Of course it does: Unix is completely agnostic of encodings in file APIs. On the implementation level, it's

Re: [Python-3000] Filename: unicode normalization

2008-09-30 Thread Guido van Rossum
Martin answered a similar question from Jack Jansen in another thread. OSX doesn't normalize either. It's unlikely to confuse users in practice. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since it's hard to follow the filename thread on two mailing list, i'm > sta

[Python-3000] Filename: unicode normalization

2008-09-30 Thread Victor Stinner
Since it's hard to follow the filename thread on two mailing list, i'm starting a new thread only on python-3000 about unicode normalization of the filenames. Bad news: it looks like Linux doesn't normalize filenames. So if you used NFC to create a file, you have to reuse NFC to open your file