Re: Problem with accented characters

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 17:06:07 CDT

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    On Aug 23, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:

    > Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit at apple dot com> wrote:
    >
    >> FYI, by far the largest source of text in NFD (decomposed) form in
    >> Mac OS X is the file system. File names are stored this way (for
    >> historical reasons), so anything copied from a file name is in (a
    >> slightly altered form of) NFD.
    >
    > "Slightly altered"?
    >

    Yes, the specification for the Mac file system was frozen before NFD
    had been developed by the UTC, so it isn't exactly the same. But it's
    close.

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    John H. Jenkins
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