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the_mitsuhiko on June 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: APFS is not safe to use with names which have Unic...

> I've had to write code to deal with normalization changes in archives and it's quite tedious.

You need to continue to write this on APFS. Nothing really changed in that regard. It's now just also possible to store denormalized filenames.

acdha on June 6, 2017 [–]

Exactly - and that matters to me in cases where the ability to say that someone copying files won't change the checksum on a manifest, which users find extremely confusing.

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