Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Unicode normalization (userspace issue, but what the heck) | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:48:26 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <pan.2004.02.15.03.33.48.209951@smurf.noris.de> By author: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Not locale, but normalization problems and identical-glyph problems. > > Which is actually worse, because you don't have filenames which look > like crap -- instead you have filenames which look perfectly sane, but > they still do not work. Example: is an á one character, or is it an a > followed by a composing Ž? > > Mac OSX, just as an example, only uses decomposed filenames. I don't know > the current situation, but 10.2 has major problems when you try to access > files with composite characters in their name (across NFS for instance). > > I wonder if Linux, i.e. Linus ;-) should decree one single standard > normalization. (I am NOT saying that enforcing this would be the kernel's > job!) >
I believe that for most applications, normalization form C should be used.
However, I suspect there are some applications for which this would not apply.
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