MacOS file system changes between 7u10 and 7u40?

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 09:29:17 PDT 2013


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:
> It is already the case that you cannot access all possible Unix file names
> from Java because by design, file names are represented by Java strings
> (UTF-16), but at the OS level filenames are actually arbitrary byte
> sequences with no concept of encoding.

I don't think this is true on HFS+ and ZFS. As they do normalization
when a file is created, they need to have a concept of encoding.

Cheers
Philippe


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