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. -- David Menendez <zednenem@psualum.com> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>