Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk writes:
AFAIK MacOS normalizes filenames, but using a slightly different algorithm than Unicode (perhaps just an older version).
According to http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1173.html, Mac OS
X uses different forms depending on the file system.
| For example, HFS Plus uses a variant of Normal Form D in which
| U+2000 through U+2FFF, U+F900 through U+FAFF, and U+2F800 through
| U+2FAFF are not decomposed (this avoids problems with round trip
| conversions from old Mac text encodings).
The big catch to watch out for is that Mac OS X supports UFS, which is
case sensitive, and HFS+, which is not. I've had at least one Haskell
program that didn't work properly because it tried to create two files
named "tags" and "TAGS" in the same directory.
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David Menendez