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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by messe on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:16AM (#35337825)
Kind of. Imagine if capital letters looked identical to regular letters just with a different byte representation, but Windows preserved them regardless.

Well, it turns out that Unicode can represent a lot of characters by way of different possible encodings (for example é could be a single codepoint, or the codepoint of e followed by the codepoint of an acutely accent).

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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:26AM (#35338933)
Notes does something like this for some reason. The quotes that are used in the Notes app that are then copy pasted into other apps like Terminal or a code editor are not the same as the quotes we use every day. I think some apps are smart enough to fix this by default (perhaps IntelliJ?) but otherwise it’s the source of a non-negligible amount of annoyance if you like to use Notes for whatever reason
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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by Tagbert on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:09PM (#35343329)
that’s because curly quotes are different characters from the straight quote characters that you can see on your keyboard. Some apps will convert straight quotes to curly quotes to “help” you.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by sprayk on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:23PM (#35343564)
in system settings somewhere you should be able to disable smart quotes (or something like that).
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