Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?

On Wed, 7 May 2025 14:58:50 +0200
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 07.05.2025 12:08, BGB wrote:

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Though, if someone really must make something case-insensitive, a
case could be made for only supporting it for maybe Latin, Greek,
and Cyrillic. 

 
I don't understand what you want to say here; it just sounds strange
to me. - Mind to elaborate?
 

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic are three Bicameral scripts that
- have long history
- widely used today
- have simple mostly unambiguous relationships between upper and lower
cases.
AFAIK, the only other script that shares all of these properties is
Armenian. I would think that BGB just forgot about it and that he
would agree that Armenian belong with other three.

Support for case-insensitivity for the rest of bicameral scripts in
the Unicode would be harder either because of immaturity of some of
scripts or because nobody uses them any longer so it would be hard to
find the authority in case of confusion.

Ideally, this would be better handled in a file-browser or
similar, and not in the VFS or FS driver itself. 

 
Janis