Subject: bug#36940: tests slowness and failure after recent Tramp changes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:58:54 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:46:30 +0200
> 
> > What does "not failing with such file names" entail?  Does the test
> > compare file names as strings, for example?
> 
> Yes. But it compares file names as returned from the remote host, so
> both strings are transformed the same way. I believe.

Are the strings returned by the remote compared as unibyte strings?
If not, maybe there's a subtle bug in the comparison that does fail.
For example, could it be that you decode those strings as utf-8, not
as utf-8-hfs?  The latter should produce back the composed characters,
I think.