Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de>
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:25:58 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > It is only a ``problem'' if you accept the view that no two files in
> > the same directory can have names that are pronounced identically.
> 
> No, it's not just that.
> Certainly, you could have files "X" and "Ⅹ" (the Roman numeral).  Even
> if they look the same there is no problem (other than likely user
> confusion) in having both.
> 
> However, the two types of "ü" are the same character, or at least
> functionally equivalent characters.  They should be considered equal.
> But comparing them properly requires normalization
> (cf. http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/).

I know about normalization.  What I'm saying is that there's no
problem, conceptually, to have several files having equivalent names.
In particular, I don't see why file names with "X" and "Ⅹ" are okay
for you, but the two types of "ü" are not.  I think they are both
exhibiting the same problem.