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Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X
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Ryan Schmidt |
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Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X |
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Thu, 12 May 2016 23:52:08 -0500 |
On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:57, Micah Cowan wrote:
>
>> It looks like the troubles your experiencing are due to the fact that
>> the Wget tests assume that the filesystem can take any arbitrary set of
>> bytes, and will store them as they were given. This is apparently not
>> the case for Mac OS, and I should probably have known better than to
>> assume it would be a universal case. Ryan, can you please confirm for me
>> that this is indeed what's happening?
>
> Basically yes. It's a feature of the HFS Plus volume format, which is the
> default volume format on Mac OS since before Mac OS X.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#HFSPlusNames
>
> "HFS Plus stores strings fully decomposed and in canonical order."
>
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#CanonicalDecomposition
>
> "HFS Plus defines that Unicode strings will be stored in fully decomposed
> form, with composing characters stored in canonical order. The other
> equivalent forms are illegal in HFS Plus strings. An implementation must
> convert these equivalent forms to the fully decomposed form before storing
> the string on disk."
Hello, just wanted to gently remind you that this bug in the wget test suite
running on OS X that I reported in 2009 with wget 1.12 still exists today with
wget 1.17.1.
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X,
Ryan Schmidt <=
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/16
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Ryan Schmidt, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Andries E. Brouwer, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Tim Rühsen, 2016/05/18