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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by al2o3cr on Saturday March 25, 2017 @07:15AM (#13955043) 

    More generally, once APFS is deployed users can legitimately end up with
    multiple files in the same folder whose names only differ in normalization.
The initial message that starts this off seems to imply the opposite - instead, application developers should be normalizing the name before handing it to the filesystem. In that case, an application which allowed non-normalized naming would arguably have a bug.
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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by Someone on Saturday March 25, 2017 @07:43AM (#13955137)
Asking applications to enforce an OS-wide policy is asking for problems, even ignoring the existence of malware.

You wouldn't say "the OS doesn't check file attributes to see whether you are allowed to access a file; that's left to applications", either.

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