On Jan 22, 2008 10:28 AM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> wrote: > That's certainly a reasonable POV. However, it's not the only one. As > evidenced by the Mac, treating filenames as strings rather than bytes > is a viable alternative POV - you can't argue that it doesn't work, > because OS X proves it does. With its own slew of bugs. See Ted's reply earlier for a mouthful of woe in HFS+ that is not easy to workaround. > Perhaps you should try OS X. Every single Cocoa app should do the OSX has given me enough grief with other filesystem and general OS problems that I have definitely abandoned it after 2 years trying to use it part-time. It has been back to linux for me ;-) cheers, martin - 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