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Will bzr ever work with MacOS X

Asked by Ulrich Wagner

On MacOS X it isn't possible to add a directory with non ascii characters. It is reported as bug 172383. This bug hasn't been fixed for over a year now, will it ever happen?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Ulrich Wagner (wagner-viaregio) said : 		#2

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Ulrich Wagner (wagner-viaregio) said : 		#3

And this question hasn't been answered for two weeks now. So it seems, that MacOS X shouldn't be listed as a supported platform.

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Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) said : 		#4

Your summary isn't quite correct, it is possible to use non-ascii characters, the problem lies in the normalization form, which happens with a subset of Unicode, certainly not all characters.

Do you actually have a problem you encounter, or do you claim that OSX is not a supported platform purely based on the existence of #172383 ?

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Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) said : 		#5

My previous post wasn't an answer, but a request for more information.

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Ulrich Wagner (wagner-viaregio) said : 		#6

So here are more information:
I live in Germany and so it is not quite ununsual that filenames and directorynames contain characters called "Umlaute". These characters are non-ascii characters.
Yes, I had encountered a problem which I could only solve by switching to Mercurial, because it was absolutly impossible to add a directory with an "ä" in the name to a bazaar repository. This was only my second choice, because coming from subversion bazaar seemed to be more obvious choice, but failed for me.

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Martin Pool (mbp) said : 		#7

Yes, we will fix bug 172383 so that unicode filenames work (or work better) on os x. I can't estimate when that will be fixed.

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