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Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
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On 4/30/25 6:00 AM, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2025-04-29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:18:48 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>>
>>> As for your file example though, you do demonstrate why one may choose
>>> upper vs lower case, Windows does allow that.  But should they be
>>> *seperate* files?
>>
>> It should be your choice.
>>
> Well, you get to choose the filesystem you use.  JFS2 if I recall could
> be case insensitive, but i would play havoc with the OS if you used it
> in the wron place.  In Windows, can you make it case sensitive?
> 
>>> However, I agree with your comment about unicode.  Treating upper and
>>> lower case letters as the same, leads to complicated rules, which may
>>> vary from system to system, and cause chaos.
>>
>> Unicode seems to have come up with some standard set of “default” rules
>> that are independent of any particular localization setting.
> 
> These would need to be in a standard, one that filesystems can
> implement.  But then filesystems would have to implement the same
> standard, otherwise, again issues arise.  Can't see this being workable
> for end users.


   So, in essence, the development of case-sensitive
   systems ruined it for case-insensitive  :-)

   Same now for space-tolerant file names.