Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

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>.