> > I thought Mac OS X has a standard normalization for unicode filenames. > Linux just treats whatever it gets as bytes so it is up to the software > creating the file. Am I correct? >
Looks like you are: https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#UnicodeSubtleties So HFS+ does define a normalization form, which is apparently something very close to but not identical to NFD. Good to know.