Re: [Exist-open] Filenames with awkward characters in eXist-db?

[Christian W. <cwi...@gm...>]

Dear David,

Just chiming in on this very specific point:

On 26/11/2020 03.05, David Birnbaum wrote:
> But for those who are curious: on my Mac, with the data directory left 
> with the default value /Users/djb/Library/Application 
> Support/org.exist, packages are unpacked 
> under /Users/djb/Library/Application Support/org.exist/expathrepo/, so 
> trying to install the xar file let me see whether ё was represented by 
> a single composite character or by a base followed by a combining 
> diacritic. 

The macOS file system will normalize characters to use decomposed forms 
of characters that are encoded as pre-composed characters in Unicode as 
a rule, so in this case the observed fact does not allow any conclusions 
regarding the handling within eXist or its I/O pipelines.  For that 
purpose, you would need to use a different OS.

All the best,

Christian