Accented Characters in Tags: iTunes vs FLAC, etc.

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magister:
Thanks for the reply and apologies for just noticing it.

Since Simon showed me the existence of the decomposed forms for UTF-8 strings, I've been reading up on UTF-8 and precomposed vs decomposed forms myself. Now that I understand that the Mac's HFS+ file system uses the decomposed form for extended characters, I realise my "problem" was expected behaviour.

Because I run Mavericks (and Yosemite) on my Macs, I have been able to modify my Applescripts very simply to convert from decomposed to precomposed.

The one line of code required uses Cocoa's NSString's precomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping method. Simples!

Simon:
I endorse your investigation and hope it's as simple for you!

Thanks, all, for the education!