Bazaar does not support umlauts in file names on Mac OS X

[John Szakmeister]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Nicholas Allen пишет:
>> I just reported this bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/489190)
>> but thought it might be worth mentioning on this list as it seems like a
>> pretty serious bug and maybe someone knows a workaround.
>>
>> Basically it's not possible to add files with umlauts (German
>> characters) in their names on Mac OS X.
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> This is known problem with native Mac filesystem, because it tends to do denormalization of unicode
> filenames. John Meinel can provide more details, but as I remember there is no simple way to solve
> this problem because when you wrote unicode filename from python and then read back directory
> listing you'll get different form of unicode (literally: different bytes).

I remember Subversion ran into this issue years ago.  I seem to recall
them standardizing on NFC for paths, and using some functions
available on Mac OS X to convert NFD into NFC form.  I'll see if I can
track down some details there.

-John