Codereview request for 7130915: File.equals does not give expected results when path contains Non-English characters on Mac OS X

[Alan Bateman]

On 22/06/2012 19:02, Mike Duigou wrote:
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> Won't this cause problems on case sensitive file systems? The MacOSX filesystem is by default case insensitive but case sensitive file systems are not entirely uncommon.
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It shouldn't cause any issues accessing files, this is really just about 
equals, sorting, and path matching. I think it requires a bit of thought 
as to whether to change this because Apple's JDK6 and older releases 
does not appear to have changed File#equals.

In any case, just to put some context on Sherman's changes, this really 
just another installation of the port to Mac as this area was not 
completely ported. In that context then the changes to fix the 
normalization issues are very welcome. Other missing pieces in this area 
included the watch service, and also a FileTypeDetector implementation.

-Alan.