OS X - how to calculate normalized file name

Question

I need to create a mapping between file names generated on Windows and OS X. I know that OS X \"converts all file names to decomposed Unicode\" however, \"most volume forma

Answer 1

You're probably looking for -[NSString fileSystemRepresentation] method.

Note that there is no general solution for this task. What is a valid file name depends on filesystem of the volume you're saving on. Not every file name valid for HFS+ is valid for FAT32, for example.

For Mac's “standard” filesystem (currently HFS+), fileSystemRepresentation should give what you need; for other file systems, there is no general way. Think about ones that don't exist but will be introduced in the future, for example :)