@nicolas17 It seems like no. The error is “Illegal byte sequence”.

@nicolas17 Yes, HFS+ enforced something close to NFD. APFS is normalisation-insensitive but -preserving and doesn’t change the given name, but won’t allow two canonically-equivalent names to exist at once. Finder is actually doing the normalisation work here — if you use the POSIX APIs to make a file (e.g. at the terminal) you can create NFC or unnormalised names, and then copying those out of Finder will give you the name unchanged. It is an odd set of choices.

@mcc A plausible route is “create a file with this name on macOS, then copy the name out”, which will normalise to NFD on APFS. When you copy the name out afterwards you get the fully decomposed text regardless of what you put in originally. I just checked creating a directory in Finder by pasting in 한국 (2 codepoints), and it copies out as 한국 (6 codepoints, though only 18 bytes UTF-8). That should work for any precomposed characters and copying a path seems “reasonable” to do naturally.

@glyph There are a lot of multimodal approaches attempting to bridge exactly this gap, with middling effectiveness. Tiled Grace was part of my thesis work & lets you switch mode, Poliglot has both at once, several others for both teaching and real languages. There was a good survey last year that covered most of them: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590118425000280. It’s a hard problem and part of it is exactly what you brought up—the programming itself is one thing but all the other tooling is as much of an obstacle.

@Tijn You want the “normal” version. The “Hitman 3 Access Pass: Hitman 2 Expansion” has two more (good) maps in it that you’ll probably want eventually. Both the normal and deluxe are routinely on sale, and the deluxe includes H2 expansion & is often cheaper during those. “Part One” is the levels from Hitman 1 in the H3 engine; “normal” is all the levels from 1-3 in the same engine, except for the two from the H2 expansion. Somehow, this is still an improvement on how it used to be.

@PaniczGodek Thanks, I’ve passed that on to Josh.