>> El día lunes, mayo 17, 2021 a las 01:27:40p. m. -0000, hamann.w@xxxxxxxxxxx escribió: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > in unicode letter ä exists in two versions - linux and windows use a composite whereas macos prefers >> > the decomposed form. Is there any way to make a semi-exact match that accepts both variants? >> > This question is not about fulltext but about matching filenames across a network - I wish to avoid two equally-looking >> > filenames. >> >> There is only *one* codepoint for the German letter a Umlaut: >> LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESI U+00E4 >> Hi Matthias, unfortunately there also is letter a with combining dieretic - and it is used by MacOS The mac seems to prefer decomposed characters in other contexts as well, so in my everyday job I used to have fun with product catalogues from a few companies. Depending on the computer used for adding / editing a productthe relevant field could be iso-latin-1, utf8 normal, or utf8 decomposed >> Said that, having such chars (non ASCII) in file names, I count as a bad >> idea. I usually try to avoid whitespace and accented charactersin filenames, to be able to use ssh and scp without much hassle, but I am not the user in this case. Now, if I look at a music collection (stored as folders with mp3 files for the tracks), I would really prefer "Einstürzende Neubauten" over Einstuerzende_Neubauten Regards Wolfgang >>