> Le 7 mars 2017 à 21:03, davel...@mac.com a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> On Mar 7, 2017, at 1:19 PM, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 7 Mar 2017, at 12:47, Jean-Daniel <mail...@xenonium.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Did you try to use NSString -fileSystemRepresentation instead of UTF-8, or 
>>> even better, use URL. While using UTF-8 for path worked well on HFS+, It 
>>> was never guaranteed to work on all FS.
>> 
>> FWIW, the macOS kernel does use UTF-8 at the VFS interface (and therefore 
>> the BSD syscalls that take path arguments expect UTF-8).  This is different 
>> to most other UNIXen (which tend to treat paths as a bunch of bytes, at 
>> least at syscall level and often at filesystem level too).  It’s definitely 
>> the case that for the built-in FAT, NTFS and HFS+ implementations, UTF-8 
>> will work.  Other filesystem implementations really *should* be treating 
>> what they get as UTF-8 too, but obviously that’s not guaranteed.
>> 
>> AFAIK all -fileSystemRepresentation does is it processes the Unicode string 
>> according to the rules in TN1150 and then convert to UTF-8; but you don’t 
>> actually *need* to do the HFS+ mapping (TN1150) before calling the BSD API 
>> (and it doesn’t even make any sense to do so unless the filesystem is HFS+, 
>> which -fileSystemRepresentation has no way of knowing).  The main benefit is 
>> that the result will compare bytewise equal with a filename read from the 
>> filesystem (assuming HFS+).  On other filesystems, well, things are 
>> different.  VFAT and later variants store UTF-16, as does NTFS, but the 
>> rules in both cases differ.  ExtFS, UFS et al. tend to regard filenames as a 
>> bunch of bytes and don’t even try to record what encoding was used.  I don’t 
>> know what ZFS, XFS or JFS do; using Unicode at filesystem level on a 
>> UNIX-like system is not unproblematic (because it may very well *not* be the 
>> same encoding being used at the user’s terminal), but equally the bunch of 
>> bytes approach creates all kinds of fun (you may *see* a file with a 
>> particular name, but you can’t necessarily name it yourself from the 
>> keyboard...)
>> 
>> Not that I’d recommend *not* using -fileSystemRepresentation; Apple says we 
>> should, so we should.  I’m just observing that it isn’t a particularly good 
>> API and in future it’ll either be deprecated or do the exact same thing as 
>> -UTF8String because there’s really no other good option I can see.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Alastair.
> 
> I saw the other posts about fileSystemRepresentation and tried the code I 
> posted earlier in the thread didn’t have any effect.
> 
> My app has the option to zip up the directories UIManagedDocument creates and 
> email it (so users can back up their data or share it with others). The 
> person sent it to me. Below is what I did in the Terminal so you can see what 
> happens when I try to unzip it. If this doesn’t come through on the email 
> list with the characters looking correct, I can screenshot it.
> 
> This is one of the data files that was created on iOS 10.2 and then won’t 
> open now on an iOS 10.3 device. It appears the directory name and zip file 
> name do not match and it won’t unzip correctly. It does create a directory 
> but the directory is empty instead of containing the StoreContent and 
> persistentStore files. The zip file is 34KB so it may or may not actually 
> have the data in it.
> 
> $ ls
> إعلام.zip
> 
> $ unzip *.zip
> Archive:  إعلام.zip
> checkdir error:  cannot create Ϻ+?Ϧ+?Ϻ+?/StoreContent
>                 No such file or directory
>                 unable to process Ϻ+?Ϧ+?Ϻ+?/StoreContent/persistentStore.
> checkdir error:  cannot create Ϻ+?Ϧ+?Ϻ+?/StoreContent
>                 No such file or directory
>                 unable to process Ϻ+?Ϧ+?Ϻ+?/StoreContent/persistentStore-shm.
> checkdir error:  cannot create Ϻ+?Ϧ+?Ϻ+?/StoreContent
>                 No such file or directory
>                 unable to process Ϻ+?Ϧ+?Ϻ+?/StoreContent/persistentStore-wal.
> 
> $ ls
> ?+%F2Ϧ+%E4?+%E0/      إعلام.zip
> 
> When you unzip it, it should create a directory with the exact same name as 
> the .zip file (just without the .zip extension). 
> 
> This may be enough information that it’s worth filing a bug report now. Does 
> anyone have any other suggestions? Again, creating an Arabic file on iOS 10.3 
> works fine, but these ones that were created on 10.2 do not open on 10.3.

If new files work but old ones are broken, so it is probably a FS migration 
issue. Look like something went wrong while converting HFS to APFS, and I’m not 
sure you can do something about it (but fill a bug report to Apple).


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