Unicode through filesystem tricks

[John A Meinel]

Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:34:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 01:03 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
>>
>>> $ ls r*
>>> räksmörgås  räksmörgås
>>>
>>> (well, it looks correct on my terminal, that both files have the exact
>>> same name, in the same directory)
>> Interestingly to me, the first raksmogas has just-visible the diaeresis
>> whereas the second one its very visible. Guess thats the difference
>> between combining and non combining representations.
> 
> They look exactly the same to me.
> 
> Wouter van Heyst

The look the same for me on a Mac terminal. In Thunderbird the first one
 has boxes after the a. (Apparently Thunderbird on Mac doesn't support
the combining characters, which is interesting because it does on Linux).
On Ubuntu, the double dots are improperly formated for the first one.
They sit right on the a, rather than above it.

I'm guessing that Mac actually translates them for display, so they are
actually the same character.

John
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