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Personally I think the current Normalisation Form D is awful, storing an ü as two characters is really annoying and even bash can't really deal with it in the version Apple uses. I really hope APFS will fix this. But we'll see.



It's awful in great part because common input modes produce something close to NFC.


Apple could of course change their keyboard layouts to produce something close to NFD. (OS X has always allowed keys to produce multi-character results.)


But everyone else's input modes would still produce something close to NFC. Interop with the rest of the world matters. OS X is not the only OS.


It's not bash, BTW, but the OS X input mode. A real irony there.


I used to compile my own bash from homebrew or alike and with that (newer) version, it worked w/o a problem.




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