[Unison-hackers] Experiences with unicode support synching Mac-Lin

[Stefan Rank]

on 2009-07-15 17:20 Jerome Vouillon said the following:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your feedback!  I have made some changes accordingly.
> Could you test them?
> 
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:58:26PM +0200, Stefan Rank wrote:
>> - It would be great to automatically convert filenames created on
>>    a Mac (NFD) to the NFC normal-form used on Linux (by convention)
>>    when this file is first synched (and therefore created by unison
>>    on the Linux side).
> 
> Unison should now do this.

Works as expected. Thanks a lot!

>> With "unicode = true" in the profile, this now preserves all my
>> filenames, even those with the crazy characters.
> 
> I am wondering whether I should make "unicode = true" the default now.

I would vote for yes, but...

> That should eventually be the case.  Besides, that should not be a
> problem when synchronizing with a Mac.  However, when synchronizing
> between Windows and Unix, filename are currently ISO-8859-1 encoded on
> the Unix side.  So Windows users may have some surprises when
> upgrading...

...I think this can of worms calls for a transition period. :-)

>> I still had non-utf8 filenames on Linux (mostly created previously by
>> unison).
>> unison-text will abort with an error message in this case.
>> unison-gui will fail silently. For some cases, it will show empty
>> no-synch lines. (Sorry, I don't remember the details now.)
> 
> I suspect the issue is that we did not make sure that the strings sent
> to the GUI were Unicode encoded.  I have tried to fix that.

Thanks again,
stefan