On Jan 21, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Peter Karlsson wrote:
I happen to prefer the text-as-string-of-characters (or code points, since you use the other meaning of characters in your posts), since I come from the text world, having worked a lot on Unicode text processing. You apparently prefer the text-as-sequence-of-octets, which I tend to dislike because I would have thought computer engineers would have evolved beyond this when we left the 1900s.
I agree. Every single problem that I can recall Linus bringing up as a consequence of HFS+ treating filenames as strings is in fact only a problem if you then think of the filename as octets at some point. If you stick with UTF-8 equivalence comparison the entire time, then everything just works.
Granted, this is a problem when you have to operate on a filesystem that thinks of filenames as octets, but as I said before, this doesn't mean the HFS+ approach is wrong, it just means it's incompatible with Linus's approach.
-Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@xxxxxx http://www.tildesoft.com
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