Stephan Kleisinger wrote:
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: darwin9.3.0
Compiler: /usr/bin/gcc-4.0
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='darwin9.3.0' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-apple-darwin9.3.0'
-DCONF_VENDOR='apple' -DLOCALEDIR='/opt/local/share/locale'
-DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMACOSX -I. -I. -I./include
-I./lib -I/opt/local/include -O2
uname output: Darwin cicero.lan 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri
May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Machine Type: i386-apple-darwin9.3.0
Bash Version: 3.2
Patch Level: 39
Release Status: release
Description:
The Mac OS X Filesystem HFS+ reports filenames in Unicode NFD
Normalization form. As arguments (e.g. open()) all normalization
forms are accepted.
Input for the bash from the Terminal.app is usually in NFC.
This results in problems.
The German Direcory name "Bücher" (Buecher/Books):
1. Bash completion does not work
Bü<TAB> -> Nothing
Bu<TAB> -> Works
(glob and Bu* work in the same way)
2. if \w is included in $PS1 the display length is calculated wrong so
when using the arrow-keys to recall the history the display is
disrupted
3. when an argument is Completeted (Bu<TAB> -> Bücher) the argument
is in NFD. Deleting the argument results in wrong cursor position
The problem is that there is no way using standard interfaces to
distinguish or convert between the two forms on Mac OS X, at least
none that I have found (and I've been looking at this for some time).
I'm not particularly interested in using Mac OS-specific APIs; I
have no experience with them.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
