Note that Apple's APFS doesn't normalize Unicode filenames: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953800 From w

Note that Apple's APFS doesn't normalize Unicode filenames: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953800 From what I understand, it stores them as-is but can read any (so is normalization insensitive): https://medium.com/@yorkxin/apfs-docker-unicode-6e9893c9385d https://medium.com/@yorkxin/apfs-docker-unicode-6e9893c9385d https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/FAQ/FAQ.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Fi... This hit me a couple of years ago when I was working on a scraper and storing the title of the page as the filename. It looked fine, but would fail a Javascript string comparison. I can't remember if I was using HFS+ though, which I believe saved filenames as NFD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus#Criticisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus#Criticisms The same script might work today on APFS.