On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> wrote:

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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.

I know that on Linux a readdir returns NFC strings. Are you saying

that even though HFS+ stores NFD on MacOS it return NFC? Or

are you saying that the Linux

HFS+ driver performs a conversion?

If only the latter then my point that the definition of a canonical

filename

host OS

specific remains.

/john