Re: [PATCH] normalization tweaks for macOS

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/18/23 1:39 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 9:55 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > Unicode normalization on macOS has always been a pain in the ass.
>
> I can see that!
>
> > This is the basic assumption that drives all the decisions: character input
> > you get from the terminal is in NFC, and files from the file system (names
> > and usually contents) are in NFD.
>
> I guess the point of this patch was that this assumption does not
> always hold -- neither file system names nor terminal input have any
> guaranteed normalization.

I should have said keyboard input; pasted text can be NFD, as you show.

So I'll go ahead with your patch, starting with the globbing changes. We're
already not conformant with POSIX here, so what's a little bit more?

Apple certainly didn't do anyone any favors with this.

Chet
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