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To be fair, what a sufficiently clever application could do would be to try and naively open the file, note a mismatch, then do a directory walk comparing norma
by FeepingCreature 4y ago
To be fair, what a sufficiently clever application could do would be to try and naively open the file, note a mismatch, then do a directory walk comparing normalized filenames.
Still not great.
- flohofwoe 4y agoIdeally, un-normalized paths wouldn't even make it down to the filesystem layer. I'm just saying that it shouldn't be the filesystem's job to care about text encoding details, but the layers above it (e.g. the filesystem would work in a simple "garbage in - garbage out" mode).