Re: Problems with non-ascii filenames

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009-03-01 10:45:01 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> Well ... assuming zsh implements equivalence based on character 
> normalization. And you have two files with names: <00E4> ("standard" 
> single character ä) and <0061><0308> (a with combining diaeresis). Now 
> completion listing will present to you
> 
> ä ä
> 
> Which one are you going to select?

zsh should propose the choice (even though such a FS is badly designed).

> It is different from case insensitive file systems where you never can 
> get both forms at once (FOO and foo).

But you missed the point that on a case-sensitive file system you can
have both forms and you can still choose case-insensitive completion
(very useful...).

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