From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-01-13T01:32:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.entires and UTF-8

On 12/01/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> On 1/13/06, Timo Hoepfner <th-dev@onlinehome.de> wrote:
>> What's going on here? Ths is on MacOS X 10.4.4. Looks like
>> Dir#entries returns strings encoded with some encoding I didn't
>> expect. How can I convert the string to UTF8?
> You have got a corrent UTF-8 string.  Unlike Windows XP, Mac OS X
> decomposes character components as much as possible (Sorry I forgot
> the correct term for this policy).  So what you got:

IIRC, that's the correct term. (Decomposed.)

-austin
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