Sujet : Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
De : a_eder_muc (at) *nospam* web.de (Andreas Eder)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc comp.os.linux.advocacySuivi-à : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 29. Apr 2025, 09:18:36
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On Mo 28 Apr 2025 at 18:56, Farley Flud <
ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:12:42 -0700, John Ames wrote:
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Just so, it seems to me. Of course it's many years too late for *nix to
course-correct on this, but it was a stupid design decision in 1970 and
it remains stupid now. Well, such is the nature of things in this vale
of sin and tears...
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Case insensitivity was only idiotic at the beginning, but now, in the
age of Unicode, it is supremely idiotic.
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Consider the German "sharp s," which I cannot enter as UTF-8 here.
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But the lower case sharp s maps into TWO DIFFERENT upper case chars:
<can't enter> and "SS," e.g. STRASSE or <can't enter>.
You mean either ß -> ẞ or ß -> SS don't you?
'Andreas
-- ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam
Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
