> On Jun 1, 2017, at 7:44 AM, Jonathan Taylor <jonathan.tay...@glasgow.ac.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
> My attempt like:
> [NSURL URLWithString:[path 
> stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding] 
> relativeToURL:relativeTo];

Ah, you want NSUTF8StringEncoding instead. Generally speaking, URL encoding 
always uses UTF-8 nowadays.

> This had been working ok for some time, but I have just found it to be broken 
> for filenames containing unusual characters. In particular, it fails when 
> given a filename containing a “smart quote” (not easily created directly with 
> the keyboard, but auto-generated as part of a time machine backup, based on 
> the machine name).

You mean an open or close (aka “curly”) quote? They’re easily typed with 
Option-[ and Option-Shift-[.

—Jens

(Small typographic rant: These are the true quotation marks. The “straight” one 
was a shortcut invented for the typewriter, to save an extra key, and should 
never be used in print.)
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