Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: FW: New Version Notification for draft-kerwin-file-scheme-13.txt

Phillips, Addison scripsit:

> These are both in UTF-8, are visually indistinguishable, and are
> identical under NFC, but fopen() cares which bag of bytes you grab.

The same is true on Windows, where filenames are 16-bit code units rather
than 8-bit code units.  In general, we simply cannot normalize file names,
because both Windows and Unix filesystems distinguish between names that
are equivalent under canonical equivalence.

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