macOS: Mount NFS With Proper Unicode Encoding

14 October 2022 · 1 min read · OSX, NFS, Unicode, Mounting, Filesystem

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I recently moved my external storage to a NAS. After some testing I decided to use NFS instead of SMB. One issue I ran into was that macOS was not correctly displaying filenames that contained Unicode characters. The fix is to use the nfc (Normalization Form C) option when mounting:

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sudo mount -t nfs -o nfc server:/export /local/mountpoint

Or permanently in /etc/fstab:

server:/export /local/mountpoint nfs nfc 0 0