<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Yitzchak Gale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gale@sefer.org" target="_blank">gale@sefer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Mac OS X, it's normalized Unicode. The important<br></div><div>point is *normalized* - if you create a FilePath from two</div><div>different Unicode strings that have the same normalized</div><div>form, the result FilePaths must be equal on Mac OS X.</div></blockquote></div><br>This is only true for higher level OS X APIs. ghc normally operates in the BSD layer, which mostly follows POSIX semantics; in particular, filesystem paths are bytestrings in the BSD layer, and only normalized in Cocoa APIs. (Which, among other things, means you can make a GUI application dump core by trying to use a file dialog in a directory containing a filename created using the BSD API which does not use a UTF8 encoding.)<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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