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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by slrz on Saturday March 25, 2017 @09:54PM (#13958591)
Canonically equivalent Unicode sequences look the same to machines.

Memcmp disagrees, as do the default equality operators of most programming languages in existence.

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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:04PM (#13958641)
Sure, but normalisation can nonetheless happen automatically and implicitly in many places.
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Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames by vbezhenar on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:59AM (#13959711)
Rust uses separate string type for file names. I think, that's a good approach. If language normalizes strings behind your back, that's not very good.
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