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Re: filename and normalization (was gcc identifiers)



On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:03:38PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> Well, users should not expect these two sequences to be identical,
> they are not, according to ISO/IEC 10646.

Users expect that "Ö" == "Ö", and don't know or care about Unicode, and
that's reasonable.

Programmers should care, of course, but programmers aren't the only ones
who use filenames, and this problem, as Henry pointed out, is a more
general one.

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Glenn Maynard
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