On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 04:59 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> JH> Apple recently started applying normalisation to file names in Mac > JH> OS X, with the result that the content of folders can now only be > JH> correctly displayed with fonts that contain the necessary AAT > JH> table information > > That's very surprising. Especially considering the excellent job they > did with Openstep 4.0. > Well, and it's not the way we'd like things to be either. We hope to address this in a future release of the OS. To keep things in perspective, however, bear in mind that it's now possible to have file names which are up to 255 UTF-16 units long (including astral characters), and that AAT data in the fonts is respected by the Finder, even for PUA characters. I can name a file in Pollard if I like, so long as an appropriate font is present. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
