On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, David Kastrup wrote: > > Actually, there is no good reason for non-normalized forms (deficient > software not able to deal with some of the normalized forms is not a > good reason: such software should be fixed). I'd actually agree, and it then boils down to the second sane choice I gave earlier: - don't accept data you don't like if you don't like non-normalized names, don't create them. That's fine. But don't go normalizing them behind the users back. > Yup. But that does not mean that normalization is a bad idea. It is > just that the filesystem is not the right place for it. Oh, absolutely. You can - and often should - normalize in the application (or have libraries to do it for you). Not silently and behind peoples backs. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
