RFC: safe pattern matching for problematic encoding

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

At Thu, 24 May 2012 11:47:38 -0500,
Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 21:16 +0900, FUJIWARA Katsunori wrote:
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EncodingStrategy#The_.22makefile.22_problem
> 
> Because neither Windows or Linux do normalization-based filename lookup,
> normalization on our end WILL break tools in those ecosystems.
> 
> Nor can we do normalization on check-in on the Mac side.

Would it be possible to use something like the EolExtension, just for filenames? 
→ http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EolExtension

Then the MacOS users could add the extension to make sure that the
files in the repository are compatible with other systems.

Best wishes,
Arne