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fix(clients): the folder picker finds folders with accented names on macOS - #29617

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Problem

On macOS, Finder and other Cocoa apps save new folder names in decomposed Unicode (NFD), so é is stored as e + U+0301. Korean names and Japanese kana with dakuten are stored the same way. Text typed into T3 Code is composed (NFC). The folder browser used by Add project and clone (command palette on web/desktop, Add Project screen on mobile) compares names byte for byte, which causes two problems:

  • Typing part of the folder name, such as ~/Dév, hides Développement, even though it is right there under ~/.
  • Typing the full name finds no exact match. The palette then offers Create instead of Add, and it submits the typed path instead of the existing folder's path.

Change

filterFilesystemBrowseEntries in packages/client-runtime is shared by web and mobile. It now compares the NFC forms of the query and each folder name, for both the prefix filter and the exact-match lookup. An exact literal match still wins first, so on Linux, where NFC and NFD spellings can be two different folders, the folder you typed is the one picked. Entry names and paths are not changed, so navigation and Tab completion keep the on-disk spelling. The command palette already normalizes its own search to NFC (packages/shared/src/paletteSearch.ts).

While choosing a clone destination, the palette uses filterPinnedBrowseEntries (apps/web). That function reuses the shared filter for the visible list but has its own exact-match lookup. That lookup now follows the same rule, a literal match first and then the NFC form, so Create & Clone picks the existing decomposed folder instead of the typed path.

In both places the NFC fallback is used only when exactly one folder normalizes to the typed name. If several spellings normalize to it and none matches literally, there is no exact match, so a typed submit never picks one sibling folder over another at random.

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so no prior issue: existing folders vanish from the folder browser, and it offers to create a folder that already exists. The fix is in one shared client function and the web clone-destination lookup that sits beside it, with one test assertion each. It changes no contract, server, or UI.

Overlap search: the local PR index and GitHub searches (NFD, normalize/browse, Korean folder, filterFilesystemBrowseEntries) found no fix for this. Open #26376 rewrites this function for fuzzy matching (a feature) and does not normalize names. Merged #28243 (Tab completion) and the symlink picker PRs (#28725, #26168) cover different problems.

Verification

  • On this Mac, a folder created with NSFileManager as Développement comes back from readdir in NFD (14 UTF-16 units), and name.toLowerCase().startsWith("dév") is false.
  • New case in filesystem.test.ts › filesystem browse model. On main it fails with visibleEntries: [] where the folder was expected. It also checks the NFC/NFD collision case.
  • vp test run src/state/filesystem.test.ts (client-runtime): 10/10 pass.
  • New assertion in CommandPalette.logic.test.ts › filterPinnedBrowseEntries. Before the fix it fails with expected null to be { name: 'Développement', …(1) }. vp test run src/components/CommandPalette.logic.test.ts (web): 36/36 pass.
  • Ambiguous fallback: one assertion per function with two folders (\u212B and A\u030A) that both normalize to the typed \u00C5. Before the fix both fail with expected { name: 'Å', … } to be null; after it, 10/10 and 36/36 pass.
  • vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (7 packages), and tests all pass.
  • Not checked: a live run in the web or mobile client. The change is pure filtering logic, and both clients call this function directly. The server's filesystem.browse prefix filter has the same comparison, but current clients always browse with a trailing separator, so it filters with an empty prefix. It is left unchanged.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 4 rounds with GPT-6.1 Sol on high. Sol verdict: approved (round 1 found the NFC/NFD collision case, fixed above; round 3 approved the clone-destination follow-up; round 4 approved the ambiguous-match fix, all with no open findings).

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Verdict: Approved at 40c7a29

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The folder picker now recognizes canonically equivalent Unicode names while preserving actual filesystem paths. Literal matches take priority, and ambiguous normalized names are not automatically selected, keeping the change narrowly scoped.

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Minor Restrict the NFC fallback to visible entries.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.logic.ts:
- Around line 744-756: Restrict the NFC-normalized fallback in the browse-entry
matching logic to visibleEntries instead of all input.browseEntries. Keep the
existing raw literal lookup unchanged so only the normalized fallback excludes
hidden entries.

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Walkthrough

Filesystem browse filtering and pinned-entry lookup now use NFC-normalized names when literal matching does not resolve a match. Exact selection uses a normalized match only when it is unique. Tests cover composed and decomposed directory names, including ambiguous names.

Changes: Unicode name matching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filesystem browse matching
packages/client-runtime/src/state/filesystem.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/filesystem.test.ts
Prefix matching checks raw and NFC-normalized names. Exact matching prefers a raw name, then selects a normalized match only when it is unique. Tests cover composed and decomposed names, exact-spelling preference, and ambiguous matches.
Pinned-entry exact matching
apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.logic.test.ts
Pinned-entry lookup falls back to NFC-normalized matching when literal matching finds no entry. The fallback selects an entry only when its normalized name is unique. Tests cover a composed query matching a decomposed name and ambiguous normalized names.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 40c7a

A narrow clone flow can select an invisible hidden folder instead of a visible browse choice; restrict the normalized fallback before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4
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Title check Passed The title names the main change: the folder picker now finds folders with accented names on macOS. It matches the NFC/NFD normalization fix in filterFilesystemBrowseEntries and filterPinnedBrowseEntri…
Description check Passed The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem and Change sections clearly explain the NFD/NFC mismatch, the affected function…
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The title names the main change: the folder picker now finds folders with accented names on macOS. It matches the NFC/NFD normalization fix in filterFilesystemBrowseEntries and filterPinnedBrowseEntries. It follows the conventional commit format from the template.

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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem and Change sections clearly explain the NFD/NFC mismatch, the affected functions, and the NFC-only fallback for ambiguous matches. The Scope section justifies the small fix without a prior issue, and it cites a search for overlapping work. The Verification section lists specific tests, observed before/after results, and what was not checked. The description does not link a triaged issue or maintainer approval, but it gives the required exemption reasoning for a small, focused bug fix. The template's comment says a UI change needs screenshots. This PR changes no UI, so the omission is acceptable.

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