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From: Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:18:36 +0200
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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:
>
>> 
>> 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...
>>
>
> Case insensitivity was only idiotic at the beginning, but now, in the
> age of Unicode, it is supremely idiotic.
>
> Consider the German "sharp s," which I cannot enter as UTF-8 here.
>
> 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
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