APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames

Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by coldtea on Saturday March 25, 2017 @06:44PM (#13957914)

>If filesystems are using binary data for filenames, there can be a case when is really no way to address a file by typing its name, even if you can type in that language

You could do that trivially in UNIX since forever.

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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by drdaeman on Sunday March 26, 2017 @08:52AM (#13960507)

Don't know about other UNIXes, but at least on GNU/Linux, neither IMEs nor filesystems are working with text data - it's all binary strings (with a few restrictions, like unacceptability of NULs). The only place where those binary strings are converted to text is when they're rendered (and this may cause some encoding-related oddities). So, sure one can do that.

I would've actually preferred for identifiers to be Unicode text strings.

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