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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by jrochkind1 on Saturday March 25, 2017 @07:08PM (#13957997)
> to the shorter non-canonical NFKC form

What definition or sense of 'canonical' do you mean? NFKC stands for "Compatibility Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition", so it's canonical in some sense, right?

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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by rurban on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:29AM (#13959791)
There can only be one canonical normalization, not two. NFC is the canonical one, NFKC compresses ligatures differently.
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