Re: Add a predicate for canonical file name

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>   > ​A further wrinkle arises from Unicode normalization.  IIRC Linux uses 
> NFC,
>   > MacOS uses NFD.
>
> Do you mean Linux, the kernel, or GNU/Linux, the operating system?
> I would suppose that Linux has no reason to concern itself with this
> question.

Linux cares about it when reading file names from Apple's HFS+
file system.  I think the file names are stored as NFD on disk
and the hfsplus_readdir function converts them to NFC, except I'm
not sure the conversion entirely matches Unicode specifications.