Bazaar does not support umlauts in file names on Mac OS X

[Jean-Francois Roy]

On Nov 28, 2009, at 03:29, John Szakmeister wrote:
> This may or may not be helpful, but this is what Erik ended up
> proposing for SVN:
>    http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/unicode-composition-for-filenames
> 
> Admittedly, constantly recoding paths is probably not the best idea
> for performance.  OTOH, having things Just Work is a good win.
> 
> -John
> 

Oh, one thought that occurred to me upon reading his proposal is that he didn't seem to consider using platform code for doing this, namely CFString / NSString. CFString has API specifically designed for creating a CFString object from a filesystem path, for converting between the various unicode compositions and for comparing strings using Unicode. CFString relies on libicu for the heavy lifting (which is also built-in to the system).

Jeff