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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"OS X 10.11: system calls return non-normalized unicode strings","articleBody":"`test/sequential/test-chdir.js` persistently fails on OS X 10.11 because the output of `process.cwd()` doesn't match the path we're doing `process.chdir()` on before.\n\nHere's a reduced test case (`npm i mkdirp hexy`):\n\n``` js\nconst mkdirp = require('mkdirp');\nconst hex = require('hexy').hexy;\nconst dir = __dirname + '/weird \\uc3a4\\uc3ab\\uc3af characters \\u00e1\\u00e2\\u00e3';\n\nmkdirp.sync(dir);\nprocess.chdir(dir);\n\nconsole.log(hex(new Buffer(dir)));\nconsole.log(hex(new Buffer(process.cwd())));\nconsole.log(dir.length, dir);\nconsole.log(process.cwd().length, process.cwd());\n```\n\nThe strings look identical on the terminal, but the bytes differ. Here's the output:\n\n```\n00000000: 2f55 7365 7273 2f73 696c 7665 7277 696e  /Users/silverwin\n00000010: 642f 6769 742f 6368 6469 722f 7765 6972  d/git/chdir/weir\n00000020: 6420 ec8e a4ec 8eab ec8e af20 6368 6172  d.l.$l.+l./.char\n00000030: 6163 7465 7273 20c3 a1c3 a2c3 a3         acters.C!C\"C#\n\n00000000: 2f55 7365 7273 2f73 696c 7665 7277 696e  /Users/silverwin\n00000010: 642f 6769 742f 6368 6469 722f 7765 6972  d/git/chdir/weir\n00000020: 6420 e184 8ae1 85a7 e186 abe1 848a e185  d.a..a.'a.+a..a.\n00000030: a7e1 86b2 e184 8ae1 85a7 e186 b620 6368  'a.2a..a.'a.6.ch\n00000040: 6172 6163 7465 7273 2061 cc81 61cc 8261  aracters.aL.aL.a\n00000050: cc83                                     L.\n\n52 '/Users/silverwind/git/chdir/weird 쎤쎫쎯 characters áâã'\n61 '/Users/silverwind/git/chdir/weird 쎤쎫쎯 characters áâã'\n```\n\ncc: @evanlucas\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/silverwind","@type":"Person","name":"silverwind"},"datePublished":"2015-07-11T23:57:49.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":71},"url":"https://github.com/2165/node/issues/2165"}