JDK 1.8.0 33/40, diacritics and file problems

[Scott Palmer]

I thought Mac OS X has a standard normalization for unicode filenames.
Linux just treats whatever it gets as bytes so it is up to the software
creating the file. Am I correct?

(e.g. see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9757843/unicode-encoding-for-filesystem-in-mac-os-x-not-correct-in-python
)

The point is on Linux, as you say, "it's a mess".  I'm not sure there is
anything that can be done by Java or your app that will work 100% of the
time.

Scott

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:

> >
> > They were rsynced from Mac OS X.
>
>
> I said *original* app. Rsync is not the original app and most likely does
> not attempt to re-encode or re-normalise Unicode strings.
>
>
> > I feared that. In the end it might be even reasonably doable, if I can
> > take advantage of some preconditions... for instance: is it safe to
> assume
> > that, given a specific instance of a filesystem, everything is
> > encoded/normalised in the same way?
>
>
> Probably not. Most software that handles unicode does not do code point
> normalisation. Hence my emphasis on what app created the file name in the
> first place.
>
> >
>