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		yencabulator 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is still not good I believe macOS forces UTF-8 filenames and normalizes them to something near-but-not-quite Unicode NFD. Windows doing something similar wouldn't surprise me at all. I believe NTFS internally stores filenames as UTF-16, so enforcing UTF-8 at the API boundary sounds likely.

kragen 22 days ago [–]

That sounds right. Fortunately, it's not my problem that they're using a buggy piece of shit for an OS.

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