Re: Add a predicate for canonical file name

[John Yates]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <address@hidden> wrote:

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

Linux cares about it when reading file names from Apple's HFS+
file system.  I think the file names are stored as NFD on disk
and the hfsplus_readdir function converts them to NFC, except I'm

​​

not sure the conversion entirely matches Unicode specifications.

​I know that on Linux a readdir returns NFC strings.  Are you saying

that even though HFS+ stores NFD on MacOS it return NFC?  Or

are you saying that the Linux ​

 

​HFS+ driver performs a conversion?

If only the latter then my point that the definition of a canonical

filename​ 

is

​host OS 

specific remains.

​/john​