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

[Jean-Francois Roy]

On Nov 28, 2009, at 12:18, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> So in the beginning... we did translate to NFC internally from the Mac
> filesystem. With the idea that most other platforms should only create
> NFC, and thus it was obvious what you would end up with.
> 
> Except it turned out that Japanese windows creates wide () characters,
> which turn out not to be NFC. (So the expectation that internally we
> would always use NFC means that you need to translate on more than just
> Mac...)
> 
> Also, I just got tired of trying to keep it up to date and keep it
> performing well. So at *this* point I'm thinking to ditch all attempts
> at normalization and let people get bit when checking out on Mac and
> having the filesystem rename everything for them.
> 
> If someone wants to go through the code and pull out the last few
> checks, so that we don't abort when seeing something that looks invalid,
> I'll be happy to approve the patch.
> 
> John
> =:->

Since it hasn't been mentioned, this is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/172383, which is old and rotting. It saddens me bzr seems to have no intention of fixing this in any way (not that it would be the exception, pretty much no one handles this -- hint: possible competitive advantage).

Jeff