> On Jun 1, 2017, at 11:25 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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

You can also open the Keyboard menu item or the Character menu item the title 
bar to find special characters.  The Keyboard System Preference allows you to 
enable this.

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