[Python-Dev] PEP 277 (unicode filenames): please review

[Jack Jansen]

On maandag, augustus 19, 2002, at 03:36 , Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> Guido:
>>
>>  My guess it's not his listdir() or filesystem, but the keyboard
>>  driver.
>>
> No, it's MacOSX. It always uses the decomposed form.
>
> That is very noticeable via NFS volumes where files with 
> combined character names are unopenable from the GUI.
> I've filed a bug report about that - i don't know whether OSX 
> 10.2 will allow NFC filenames, at least read-only.

This must be an oversight (or maybe something they didn't 
implement because of lack of time?). They have all the machinery 
in place to do on the fly conversion of filenames, it is used 
for HFS (old-style HFS, not HFS+) and SMB filesystems, where you 
specify the character set of the filesystem at mount time, and 
they do NFC-NFD conversion in the system call interface.
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