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