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So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

"Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names". www.spinics.net. January 23, 2008.
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob correctly, so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part